Byron
Heritage and Legacy
Published on 13. February 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIII, 262 pages
978-1-349-36972-0 (ISBN)
Description
This exciting collection represents a range of scholarly approaches and include close textual study, comparative readings, and broad cultural analysis. Contributors to this collection include Bernard Beatty, Peter Cochran, Marilyn Gaull, Charles E. Robinson, Andrew Stauffer, and Timothy Webb.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2008
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XIII, 262 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
356 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-36972-0 (9781349369720)
DOI
10.1057/9780230611047
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Person
Cheryl A. Wilson
is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Content
PART I: BYRON'S INTERNATIONAL RECEPTION Byron's 'Fragments of Stone' in the United States Court of Appeals; N.Liassis Byron in America; P.X.Accardo Byron's Influence on Early Canadian Literature; T.Ware Teaching Byron en Acadie:Elle Vous Suit Partout; P.Curtis Claiming a Great Briton for Bulgaria: Reflections on Byron's Bulgarian Reception (1880s-1920s); L.Kostova The Transformations of the Byron Legend: Methodological Reassessment; M.Modrzewsksa PART II: INFLUENCES ON BYRON'S WORK Byron and the Dragons of Eden; M.Gaull My Brother's Keeper: Biblical Heritage in Byron's Cain; W.Z.Hirst Byron and Virgil: 1799-1807; P.Cardinale The Handling of Hebrew Melodies; T.Mole One Ton per Square Foot: The Antecedents to The Vision of Judgment; P.Cochran Heritage and Innovation in Byron's Narrative Stanzas; C.Addison Inheriting Humours, Legating Humour: The Will of Manfred; B.Beatty PART III: BYRON'S LITERARY INHERITORS The Gloom and Cheerfulness of Childe Harold and Elizabeth Bennet; S.Bhattacharji Byron and Wordsworth: Satan's Neo-Classical Romantic Heirs; J.Shears Leigh Hunt and the Free Spirit of Byron; T.Webb Transgressing Romanticism: Byron and Heine's Carnevalesque use of Romantic Irony; A.M.Böhm Byron, Darwin, and Paley: Interrogating Natural Theology; C.Kenyon Jones Byronic Anger and the Victorians; A.M.Stauffer Byron's Legacy with Contributors Remarks; C.A.Wilson