Byron and Marginality / / Norbert Lennartz.

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 R...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.)
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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