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Byromania

Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. The Life of Bryon, or Southey was Right

    • Peter Cochran
    Pages 63-76
  3. Byronic Bioplays

    • Werner Huber
    Pages 93-108
  4. Fantasy and Transfiguration: Byron and his Portraits

    • Christine Kenyon Jones
    Pages 109-136
  5. Screening Byron: The Idiosyncrasies of the Film Myth

    • Ramona M. Ralston, Sidney L. Sondergard
    Pages 137-153
  6. Undead Byron

    • Tom Holland
    Pages 154-165
  7. Byronic Confession

    • James Soderholm
    Pages 184-194
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 221-234

About this book

This collection of essays by leading Byronists explores the development of the myth of Byron and the Byronic from the poet's self-representations to his various appearances in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and in drama, film and portraiture. Byromania (as Annabella Milbanke named the frenzied reaction to Byron's poetry and personality) looks at the phenomena of Byronism through a variety of critical perspectives, and it is designed to appeal to both an academic and a popular readership alike.

Reviews

'To paraphrase Byron on himself, Byromania may not be 'a mélange of good and evil', but it is a mixture of the good and the provocative. It is to be recommended if it helps to prevent what one of the contributors call 'the ghetto-isation of Byron studies.' - Paul Wright, British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin & Review

'Byromania offers the reader some fascinating insights into the poet's past and continuing importance as a myth and cultural icon.' - William D. Brewer, Romanticism On the Net

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Reading, UK

    Frances Wilson

About the editor

Frances Wilson is Lecturer in English at the University of Reading.

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