Byron in Context

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
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/05/2019
Pages: 514
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781107181465

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

About the Author
Tuite, Clara: - Clara Tuite is Professor of English at the University of Melbourne, where she is also a Co-Director and Lead Researcher with the Research Unit in Enlightenment, Romanticism and Contemporary Culture. She is the author of Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon (Cambridge, 2002) and Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity (Cambridge, 2015), which was awarded the Elma Dangerfield Prize of the International Association of Byron Societies. In 2017, she was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities.