Byron in Context (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107181465)

George Gordon, the sixth Lord Byron (1788-1824), was one of the most celebrated poets of the Romantic period, as well as a peer, politician and global celebrity, famed not only for his verse, but for his controversial lifestyle and involvement in the Greek War of Independence. In thirty-seven concise, accessible essays, by leading international scholars, this volume explores the social and intertextual relationships that informed Byron's writing; the geopolitical contexts in which he travelled, lived and worked; the cultural and philosophical movements that influenced changing outlooks on religion, science, modern society and sexuality; the dramatic landscape of war, conflict and upheaval that shaped Napoleonic and post-Napoleonic Europe and Regency Britain; and the diverse cultures of reception that mark the ongoing Byron phenomenon as a living ecology in the twenty-first century. This volume illuminates how we might think of Byron in context, but also as a context in his own right.

Author: Clara Tuite
ISBN-10: 1107181461
ISBN-13: 9781107181465
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/05/2019
Pages: 514
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2020