The European Byron

Rezensionen / Stimmen

"This book is a significant gift to Byron and Byron Studies: a reading of the estranged Byron drawn from tormented and estranged Europe. Expelled from imperial England, he was their stranger and they took him in." - Jerome McGann, Emeritus Professor, the University of Virginia



"European Byron reveals a capacious trans-European Byron, linking Byron to the cosmopolitan Shelley and Foscolo and, strikingly, tracing his impact on writers from Eastern Europe, particularly Pushkin and Mickiewicz. Grounded in textual details such as marginalia, the book explores Byron through field-defining approaches, including queer aesthetics, food studies, and eco-criticism." - Jeffrey N. Cox, the University of Colorado Distinguished Professor, Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Distinction in English and Humanities, the University of Colorado Boulder



"Jonathan Gross's excellent close readings add substantially to our biographical, textual, and cultural understanding of Byron. They illuminate the depth of Byron's influence on Eastern European writers and the influence on him of local writers Beckford, Walpole, and Moore, how prominently camp fig-ures into his works, and how its resistance to translation make European Byron distinct from English Byron." - Joseph Viscomi, James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Litera-ture, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill