Jonathon Shears, Alan Rawes

Gebundenes Buch

The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron

Beschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron offers the latest in critical thinking about the poet that defined the Romantic era across Europe and beyond. The volume presents forty-four groundbreaking essays that enable readers to assess Lord Byron's central position in Romantic traditions and his profound and far-reaching influence on British, European, and world culture. The chapters are organized into five sections-'Works', 'Biographical Contexts', 'Literary and Cultural Contexts', 'Afterlives', and 'Reading Byron Now'-that guide readers through the most important issues and frameworks for interpreting Byron. 'Works' presents original readings of Byron's key works and many of his lesser-known ones, giving space to extensive studies of his great epic, Don Juan, and the poem that brought him fame, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. 'Biographical Contexts' invites readers to consider Byron's life through key themes and patterns. 'Literary and Cultural Contexts' sets out the most important intellectual traditions from which Byron's work emerged and in which it developed. 'Afterlives' shows readers the extent of Byron's influence on literature, art, music, and politics in Europe and beyond. 'Reading Byron Now' advances the critical agendas that are shaping Byron Studies today. The Handbook tackles key themes associated with Byron including the Byronic Hero, cosmopolitanism, liberalism, sexuality, mobility, scepticism, the Gothic, celebrity culture, and much more. For new readers of Byron, the volume provides an excellent grounding in his life and work, and for specialists, it opens up exciting new approaches to an icon of Romantic literature.

Autor

Jonathon Shears is Reader in English Literature at Keele University. He has published widely on Romantic-period writers including The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost (2009) and the co-edited essay collection Byron's Temperament: Essays in Body and Mind (2016) which was awarded the Elma Dangerfield Prize. He edited The Byron Journal from 2012 to 2019 and continues to sit on the Editorial Board. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of The Byron Society. His latest monograph is The Hangover: A Literary and Cultural History (2020). Alan Rawes is Senior Lecturer in Romanticism at the University of Manchester. His publications include Byron's Poetic Experimentation (2000), English Romanticism and the Celtic World (co-ed., 2003), Romantic Biography (co-ed., 2003), Romanticism and Form (ed., 2007), Reading, Writing and the Influence of Harold Bloom (co-ed., 2010), a special issue of Litteraria Pragensia on 'Byron in Italy' (co-ed., 2014), and Byron and Italy (co-ed., 2017, winner of the 2018 Elma Dangerfield Prize). He is a past editor of The Byron Journal (2005-12) and was Joint President of the International Association of Byron Societies between 2012 and 2023.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 784
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 179mm x 52mm
• Gewicht: 1538g
• ISBN-13: 9780198808800
• ISBN-10: 0198808801
• Artikelnr.: 73223248