John Owen Havard's new book, Disaffected Parties: Political Estrangement and the Making of English Literature, 1760-1830, offers a thoughtful and searching account of the relationship between this dis-word cloud and the political terrain of the Romantic period, after 1760 and into the early 1820s with Byron.
John Owen Havard is Assistant Professor at Binghamton University and received his PhD from the University of Chicago. His articles and essays have appeared in ELH, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Contemporary Literature and in the volumes Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne and Byron: The Poetry of Politics and the Politics of Poetry. His reviews and review essays have appeared in The Scriblerian,
Eighteenth-Century Studies, The New Rambler, and the English Historical Review. He has received fellowships from the British Association for American Studies, the Whiting Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the NEH.