Synopses & Reviews
Byron is at the forefront of debate on politics, gender, sexuality, reception studies and popular culture in the Romantic period. This collection presents twelve outstanding new essays on Byron by leading critics from the US, Canada, and the UK including Steven Bruhm, Peter Cochran, Paul Curtis, Caroline Franklin, Peter Kitson, Ghislaine McDayter, Tim Morton, David Punter and Pamela Kao, Michael Simpson, Philip Shaw, Nanora Sweet and Susan Wolfson.
Synopsis
This collection presents twelve outstanding new essays on Byron by leading critics from the USA, Canada and the UK including Steven Bruhm, Peter Cochran, Paul Curtis, Caroline Franklin, Peter Kitson, Ghislaine McDayter, Tim Morton, David Punter and Pamela Kao, Michael Simpson, Philip Shaw, Nanora Sweet and Susan Wolfson.
Synopsis
This collection presents twelve outstanding new essays on Byron by leading critics from the US, Canada, and the UK.
About the Author
JANE STABLER is Reader in Romanticism at the School of English, University of St Andrews, UK. Her books include the Longman Byron Critical Reader (1998) and Byron, Politics and History (2002).
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors * Introduction--J.Stabler * Byron and the Choreography of Queer Desire--S.Bruhm * Byron and the Politics of Editing--P.Cochran * Byron, Irony and Digression--P.Curtis * Byron and History--C.Franklin * Byron and Post-Colonial Criticism--P.Kitson * Byron and Popular Culture--G.McDayter * Byron's Manfred and Eco-criticism--T.Morton * Byron and Psychoanalytic Criticism--D.Punter & P.Kao * Byron and Theatre Land: the Right Address--M.Simpson * Byron and War--P.Shaw * Byron and Intertextuality--N.Sweet * Byron and Gender Questions--S.Wolfson * Index