Byron and Marginality

ISBN-13: 9781474439411 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 328 str.

Norbert Lennartz

Opis

This book approaches Byron from a completely new angle: no longer seen in terms of his status as a celebrity and a star on the book-selling market, Byron is instead seen as an outsider both in Regency society and, even more so, for his iconoclastic views of life and literature.

Spis treści

I. Introduction: Lord Byron – Wandering and Wavering between the Centres and Margins of Romanticism: An Attempt at an Introduction, Norbert Lennartz (Vechta); II. Byron’s Marginalisation in Romantic World Literature; 1. Byron and Weltliteratur, Nicholas Halmi (Oxford); 2. Reshaping the Romantic Canon from the Margins: The Medial Construction of ‘Byron’ in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Ralf Haekel (Göttingen); 3. Byron and Romantic-Period Neoclassicism Rolf Lessenich (Bonn); III. Byron’s Marginal Identities and Places; 4. ‘When a man talks of system, his case is hopeless:’ Byron at the Margins of Romantic Counterculture, Friederike Wolfrum (Innsbruck); 5. At the Margins of Europe: Byron’s East Revisited: The Giaour, Stephen Minta (York); 6. Literary Forefathers: Byron’s Marginalia in Isaac D’Israeli’s Literary Character of Men of Genius, Jonathan Gross (Chicago); IV. Cherishing the Marginal – Marginal Genres in Byron; 7. ‘Like a Flash of Inspiration:’ Byron’s Marginalised Lyricism in Hebrew Melodies, Michael O’Neill (Durham); 8. Out of Romanticism: Byron and Romance, Anna Camilleri (Oxford); 9. The Margins of Genius: Byron, Nationalism, and the Periodical Reviews, Josefina Tuominen-Pope (Zürich); V. On the Provocative Margins of Taste; 10. ‘Stand not on that brink!? Byron, Gender and Romantic Suicide, Caroline Franklin (Swansea); 11. Byron and the Good Death, Tom Mole (Edinburgh); 12. At the Margins of Romanticism: The Women of Don Juan’s English Cantos, Drummond Bone (Oxford); VI. Marginal Affairs – Visual and Paratextual; 13. A Marginal Interest? Byron and the Fine Arts, Richard Lansdown (Groningen); 13. ‘I ask his pardon for a postscript:’ Byron’s Epistolary Afterthoughts, Jonathon Shears (Keele); VII. List of Contributors; Index.