Byron Heritage and Legacy

by Wilson, Cheryl A.

• ISBN13: 9780230600294
• ISBN10: 0230600298
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Cheryl A. Wilson is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Byron's International Reception
Byron's "Fragments of Stone" in the American Court of Appeals	p. 7
"To be redde on the banks of the Ohio!": Byron in Nineteenth-Century American Culture	p. 21
Byron's Influence on Early Canadian Literature	p. 25
Teaching Byron en Acadie: "Elle vous suit partout"	p. 35
Claiming a "Great Briton" for Bulgaria: Reflections on Byron's Bulgarian Reception (1880s-1920s)	p. 45
The Transformations of the Byron Legend: Methodological Reassessment	p. 61
Influences on Byron's Work
Byron and the Dragons of Eden	p. 73
My Brother's Keeper: The Biblical Heritage in Byron's Cain	p. 83
Lord Byron, Virgil, and Thyrza	p. 93
The Handling of Hebrew Melodies	p. 103
One Ton per Square Foot: The Antecedents of The Vision of Judgement	p. 115
Heritage and Innovation in Byron's Narrative Stanzas	p. 127
Inheriting Humors, Legating Humor: The Will of Manfred	p. 139
Byron's Literary Inheritors
The Gloom and Cheerfulness of Childe Harold and Elizabeth Bennet	p. 151
Byron and Wordsworth: Satan's Neoclassical and Romantic Heirs	p. 165
Transgressing Romanticism: Byron and Heine's Carnevalesque Use of Romantic Irony	p. 177
Byron, Darwin, and Paley: Interrogating Natural Theology	p. 187
Byronic Anger and the Victorians	p. 197
Afterword: The International Byron Conference, August 2001: Ideas, Inspirations, and Aftershocks	p. 207
Appendix	p. 223
Bibliography	p. 233
Notes on Contributors	p. 251
Index	p. 257
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