Byron and Romanticism

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This collection of essays represents twenty-five years of work by one of the most important critics of Romanticism and Byron studies, Jerome McGann. The collection demonstrates McGann's evolution as a scholar, editor, critic, theorist, and historian. His "General analytic and historical introduction" to the collection presents a meditation on the history of his own research on Byron, in particular how scholarly editing interacted with the theoretical innovations in literary criticism over the last quarter of the ...
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Overview

This collection of essays represents twenty-five years of work by one of the most important critics of Romanticism and Byron studies, Jerome McGann. The collection demonstrates McGann's evolution as a scholar, editor, critic, theorist, and historian. His "General analytic and historical introduction" to the collection presents a meditation on the history of his own research on Byron, in particular how scholarly editing interacted with the theoretical innovations in literary criticism over the last quarter of the twentieth century. McGann's receptiveness to dialogic forms of criticism is also illustrated in this collection, which contains an interview and concludes with a dialogue between McGann and the editor. Many of these essays have previously been available only in specialized scholarly journals. Now McGann's influential work on Byron can be appreciated by new generations of students and scholars.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780521007221
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date: 9/28/2002
  • Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series , #50
  • Pages: 326
  • Sales rank: 803,635
  • Product dimensions: 5.98 (w) x 8.98 (h) x 0.75 (d)

Meet the Author

Jerome J. McGann is the John Stewart Bryan University Professor, University of Virginia, and the Thomas Holloway Professor of Victorian Media and Culture, Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Byron, Fiery Dust (1962) and Don Juan In Context (1972) and the editor of The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron (1980–1993).

James Soderholm is Fulbright Scholar and Associate Professor of English and American Literature at Charles University in Prague. He is the author of Fantasy, Forgery, and the Byron Legend (1996) and Beauty and the Critic: Aesthetics in an Age of Cultural Studies (1997).

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
General analytical and historical introduction 1
1 Milton and Byron 19
2 Byron, mobility, and the poetics of historical ventriloquism 36
3 "My brain is feminine": Byron and the poetry of deception 53
4 What difference do the circumstances of publication make to the interpretation of a literary work? 77
5 Byron and the anonymous lyric 93
6 Private poetry, public deception 113
7 Hero with a thousand faces: the rhetoric of Byronism 141
8 Byron and the lyric of sensibility 160
9 Byron and Wordsworth 173
10 A point of reference 205
11 History, herstory, theirstory, ourstory 223
12 Literature, meaning, and the discontinuity of fact 231
13 Rethinking Romanticism 236
14 An interview with Jerome McGann 256
15 Poetry, 1780-1832 266
16 Byron and Romanticism, a dialogue (Jerome McGann and the editor, James Soderholm) 288
Subject index 306
Authors index 309
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