Byron

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Bernard Beatty

      Pages 1-4

3. Byron’s International Reception

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Byron’s “Fragments of Stone” in the American Court of Appeals

      • Nora Liassis

      Pages 7-19

   3. “To be redde on the banks of the Ohio!”: Byron in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

      • Peter X. Accardo

      Pages 21-24

   4. Byron’s Influence on Early Canadian Literature

      • Tracy Ware

      Pages 25-34

   5. Teaching Byron en Acadie: “Elle vous suit partout”

      • Paul M. Curtis

      Pages 35-44

   6. Claiming a “Great Briton” for Bulgaria: Reflections on Byron’s Bulgarian Reception (1880s–1920s)

      • Ludmilla K. Kostova

      Pages 45-59

   7. The Transformations of the Byron Legend: Methodological Reassessment

      • Mirosława Modrzewska

      Pages 61-69

4. Influences on Byron’s Work

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Byron and the Dragons of Eden

      • Marilyn Gaull

      Pages 73-82

   3. My Brother’s Keeper: The Biblical Heritage in Byron’s Cain

      • Wolf Z. Hirst

      Pages 83-92

   4. Lord Byron, Virgil, and Thyrza

      • Philip J. Cardinale

      Pages 93-102

   5. The Handling of Hebrew Melodies

      • Tom Mole

      Pages 103-113

   6. One Ton per Square Foot: The Antecedents of The Vision of Judgement

      • Peter Cochran

      Pages 115-125

   7. Heritage and Innovation in Byron’s Narrative Stanzas

      • Catherine Addison

      Pages 127-138

   8. Inheriting Humors, Legating Humor: The Will of Manfred

      • Bernard Beatty

      Pages 139-148

5. Byron’s Literary Inheritors

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. The Gloom and Cheerfulness of Childe Harold and Elizabeth Bennet

      • Shobhana Bhattacharji

      Pages 151-163

   3. Byron and Wordsworth: Satan’s Neoclassical and Romantic Heirs

      • Jonathon Shears

      Pages 165-175

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.

• Romanticism
• Victorian era
• William Wordsworth
• Wordsworth
• British and Irish Literature

• Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA

  Cheryl A. Wilson

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

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