Byron and Marginality / / Norbert Lennartz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Lennartz, Norbert,
• MitwirkendeR: Bone, Drummond,; Camilleri, Anna,; Franklin, Caroline,; Gross, Jonathan,; Haekel, Ralf,; Halmi, Nicholas,; James, Robert,; Lansdown, Richard,; Lennartz, Norbert,; Lessenich, Rolf,; Minta, Stephen,; Mole, Tom,; O’Neill, Michael,; Shears, Jonathon,; Tuominen-Pope, Josefina,; Wolfrum, Friederike,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)

Explores Byron as the figurehead of Romanticism and the writer of provocatively 'marginal' textsThis book approaches Byron from a completely new angle: no longer seen in terms of his status as a celebrity and a star on the book-selling market, Byron is instead seen as an outsider both in Regency society and, even more so, for his iconoclastic views of life and literature. Pilgrims in pursuit of non-existing shrines, women as man-eating giants and viragos, cannibalism, suicide, black humour and other provocatively border-crossing topics leave scholars hopelessly at a loss as to where they should categorise Byron and what they should do with his penchant for marginal themes, genres and characters. Byron caters to numerous Romantic clichés (weltschmerz, melancholy, subjectivity), while simultaneously reverting to genres, themes and motifs that cast him as a pre- or even anti-Romantic. This collection will trigger new debates in Byron scholarship and show that terms such as canonicity and marginality tend to be blurry and stand in constant need of re-negotiation.Key Features:Re-reads Byron's heterogeneous textsForegrounds Byron's marginal texts, the margins from which they were written and the thematic marginalities they deal withRe-evalutates Romanticism in the light of marginalityPinpoints the interface between Classicism, Romanticism and Modernity

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Editions and Abbreviations -- 1 Lord Byron, Wandering and Wavering between the Centres and Margins of Romanticism: An Attempt at an Introduction -- I. Byronʼs Marginalisation in Romantic World Literature -- 2 Byron and Weltliteratur -- 3 Reshaping the Romantic Canon from the Margins: The Medial Construction of ‘Byron’ in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage -- 4 Byron and Romantic Period Neoclassicism -- II. Byronʼs Marginal Identities and Places -- 5 ‘When a man talks of system, his case is hopeless’: Byron at the Margins of Romantic Counterculture -- 6 At the Margins of Europe: Byron’s East Revisited and The Giaour -- 7 Literary Forefathers: Byron’s Marginalia in Isaac D’Israeli’s Literary Character of Men of Genius -- III. Cherishing the Marginal – Marginal Genres in Byron -- 8 ‘Like a Flash of Inspiration’: Byron’s Marginalised Lyricism in Hebrew Melodies -- 9 Out of Romanticism: Byron and Romance -- 10 The Margins of Genius: Byron, Nationalism and the Periodical Reviews -- IV. On the Provocative Margins of Taste -- 11 ‘Stand not on that brink!’: Byron, Gender and Romantic Suicide -- 12 Byron and the Good Death -- 13 At the Margins of Romanticism: The Women of Don Juan’s English Cantos -- V. Marginal Affairs – Visual and Paratextual Aspects in Byron -- 14 A Marginal Interest? Byron and the Fine Arts -- 15 ‘I ask his pardon for a postscript’: Byron’s Epistolary Afterthoughts -- List of Contributors -- Index