Liberty and Poetic Licence
New Essays on Byron
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
336 pages
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6 x 9
Moving chronologically from Byron's earliest writings to those at the end of his life, Liberty and Poetic Licence brings together a distinguished group of Byron scholars to consider every aspect of Byron's poetry and prose. The focal point of the collection—and, arguably, of Byron's life and work—is freedom, and particular essays relate the concept of freedom to topics such as grammar, animal rights, and morality. The wide range of issues addressed by the prominent international contributors insure that Liberty and Poetic Licence will be essential to scholars of Byron and English Romanticism.
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Bernard Beatty
Byron Tests the Freedom of Southwell
Peter Cochran
The Bride of Abydos: The Regime of Visibility and the Possibility of Resistance
Tom Mole
'A Very Life in Our Despair'" Freedom and Fatality in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cantos III and IV
Michael O'Neill
Byron, Manfred, Negativity and Freedom
Peter Graham
Manfred's Quarrel with Immortality: Freeing the Self
Katharine Kernberger
The Language of Freedom and the REality of Power in Byron's Mazeppa
Gabriele Poole
Marino Faliero: Escaping the Aristocratic
Alan Rawes
Byron, 'Inkle and Yarico', and the Chains of Love
Andrew M. Stauffer
'I Have a Means of Freedom Still'" Aesthetic Dialectic in Sardanapalus
Jonathon Shears
Byron, Milton, and Doctrines of Christian Liberty: Cain and Paradise Regained
Joan Blythe
Byron's Afterlife and the Emancipation of Geology
Ralph O'Connor
Byron and Grammatical Freedom
Gavin Hopps
Byron, Napoleon, and Imaginative Freedom
John Clubbe
Slaves of Passion: Byron and Staël on Liberty
Jonathan Gross
Uncircumscribing Poetry: Byron, Johnson, and the Bowles Controversy
Tony Howe
Free Quills and Poetic Licences: Byron and the Politics of Publication
Timothy Webb
Index
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