The Reception of Byron in Europe

Richard Cardwell was given the Elma Dangerfield Award of the International Byron Society for the best book on Byron in 2005-06.

Byron, arguably, was and remains the most famous and infamous English poet in the modern period in Continental Europe. From Portugal in the West to Russia in the East, from Scandinavia in the North to Spain in the South he inspired and provoked, was adored and reviled, inspired notions of freedom in subject lands and, with it, the growth of national idealisms which, soon, would re-draw the map of Europe. At the same time the Byronic persona, incarnate in "Childe Harold", "Manfred", "Lara" and others, was received with enthusiasm and fear as experience demonstrated that Byron's Romantic outlook was two-edged, thrilling and appalling in the same moment. All the great writers-Goethe, Mickiewicz, Lermontov, Almeida Garret, Espronceda, Lamartine, among many others-strove to outdo, imitate, revise, and integrate the sublime Lord into their own cultures, to create new national voices, and to dissent from the old order. The volume explores Byron's European reception in its many guises, bringing new evidence, challenging old assumptions, and offering fresh perspectives on the protean impact of Lord Byron on the Continent.

This book consistes of two volumes.

Series Editor: Dr Elinor Shaffer FBA, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Contributors
Richard A. Cardwell, University of Nottingham, UK
Joanne Wilkes, University of Auckland, NZ
Peter Cochran, Cambridge, UK
Ernest Giddey, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Edoardo Zuccato, IULM University, Milan
Giovanni Iamartino, University of Milan, Italy
Derek Flitter, University of Birmingham, UK
Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Mihaela Anghelescu Irimia, University of Bucharest, Romania
Frank Erik Pointner, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Achim Geisenhanslueke, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Theo D'haen, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Martin Prochazka, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Miroslawa Modrzewska, University of Gdansk, Poland
Orsolya Rakai, Budapest, Hungary
Nina Diakonova, St. Petersburg, Russia
Vitana Kostadinova, Plovdiv University, Bulgaria
Jorgen E. Nielsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Bjorn Tysdahl, University of Oslo, Norway
Ingrid Elam, Sweden
Anahit Bekaryan, Institute of Fine Arts of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia
Innes Merabishvili, State University of Tbilisi, Georgia
Litsa Trayiannoudi, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Massimiliano Demata, Mansfield College, Oxford, UK