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Byron's Temperament: Essays in Body and Mind (Ed. by J. Shears)
No full textThis volume is the first to draw together, in eight original essays by international scholars, some of the dominant strains in critical thinking about Byron’s temperament and behaviour. Using discourses and paradigms drawn from a variety of disciplines, including literary studies, history of medicine, behaviourism and cultural studies, its contributors explore and synthesise the development of “behavioural strategies” and their impact on his poetic manner.Studies of the precise relationship of the poet’s body and mind have often placed Byron within some of our modern psychological and medical frameworks without acknowledging that these “diagnoses” are bound up with the complex business of reading and responding to literature. The topic of ‘temperament’ uniquely allows concurrent discussion of body and mind within the context of Byron’s writing, as well as his life. In this sense, the book is primarily literary. Recent scientific or quasi-scientific theory is utilised and not discounted, but the book insists upon the relevance of literary procedures and evidence, broadly understood, which are not dependent upon it and can contribute to, enlarge, or cast doubts upon some of its claims
The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron (Ed. Alan Rawes and Jonathon Shears)
No full textThe Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron offers the latest in critical thinking about the poet that defined the Romantic era in English Literature. The volume presents forty-five groundbreaking essays that enable readers to assess Lord Byron’s central position in Romantic traditions and his profound and far-reaching influence on British, European, and world culture. The essays in the volume are organized into five sections – ‘Works’, ‘Biographical Contexts’, ‘Literary and Cultural Contexts’, ‘Afterlives’, and ‘Reading Byron Now’ – that guide readers through the most important issues and frameworks for interpreting Byron. ‘Works’ presents original readings of Byron’s key works and many of his lesser-known ones, giving space for extensive studies of his great epic, Don Juan, and the poem that brought him fame, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. ‘Biographical Contexts’ invites readers to consider Byron’s life through key themes and patterns. ‘Literary and Cultural Contexts’ sets out the most important intellectual traditions from which Byron’s work emerged and in which it developed. ‘Afterlives’ shows readers the extent of Byron’s influence on literature, art, music, and politics in Europe and beyond. ‘Reading Byron Now’ sets out the latest critical agendas that are shaping Byron Studies today. The handbook tackles all of the big themes associated with Byron including the Byronic Hero, poetics, politics, history, cosmopolitanism, liberalism, sexuality, mobility, class, scepticism, the Gothic, celebrity culture, and Byronism. For new readers of Byron, the volume provides an excellent grounding in his life and work, and for specialists it delivers exciting new approaches to an icon of Romantic literature
Romanticism and Ageing: An Introduction
Get PDFAn introduction to the journal special issue on Romanticism and ageing, taking an overview of the subject area and proposing an agenda for the field.© 2019, Edinburgh University Press. This is an author produced version of a paper published in ROMANTICISM uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link below. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Byron in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature
No full textThis chapter explores how many twentieth- and twenty-first century poets and novelists self-consciously respond to Byron. The first and second sections focus, respectively, on twentieth-century poetic and prose responses to Byron. A darkly existential Byronic selfhood haunts W. B. Yeats’s poetic mythmaking and struggle for transcendence. By contrast, W. H. Auden’s Letter to Lord Byron (1937) celebrates the ingenuity of wit and accompanying mobility of self championed by Byron’s serio-comic poetry. Byronic questions about a self constantly in flux also inform the writings of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner. The chapter’s final section summarizes late twentieth- and twenty-first century novelists’ reimaginings of Byron’s character, life, and legacy. Prompted by Caroline Lamb’s portrayal of Byron in Glenarvon (1816), writers ranging from Tim Powers to John Crawley have found Byron’s biography and literary legacy a source of inspiration for a diverse range of novels across an array of genres
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