Byron and Marginality (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Lennartz, Norbert

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores Byron as the figurehead of Romanticism and the writer of provocatively ''marginal'' texts

This book approaches Byron from a completely new angle: no longer seen in terms of his status as a celebrity and a star on the book-selling market, Byron is instead seen as an outsider both in Regency society and, even more so, for his iconoclastic views of life and literature. Pilgrims in pursuit of non-existing shrines, women as man-eating giants and viragos, cannibalism, suicide, black humour and other provocatively border-crossing topics leave scholars hopelessly at a loss as to where they should categorise Byron and what they should do with his penchant for marginal themes, genres and characters. Byron caters to numerous Romantic clichés (weltschmerz, melancholy, subjectivity), while simultaneously reverting to genres, themes and motifs that cast him as a pre- or even anti-Romantic. This collection will trigger new debates in Byron scholarship and show that terms such as canonicity and marginality tend to be blurry and stand in constant need of re-negotiation.

Key Features:

• Re-reads Byron''s heterogeneous texts
• Foregrounds Byron''s marginal texts, the margins from which they were written and the thematic marginalities they deal with
• Re-evalutates Romanticism in the light of marginality
• Pinpoints the interface between Classicism, Romanticism and Modernity

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474439442
• Artikelnr.: 72430733

Autorenporträt

Norbert Lennartz is Full Professor of English Literature at the University of Vechta, in Germany. He specialises in 19th-century British literature and culture, and is particularly interested in Lord Byron, Charles Dickens's dark novels and Byronic reverberations in late Victorian and Modernist literature.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Introduction: Lord Byron - Wandering and Wavering between the Centres
and Margins of Romanticism: An Attempt at an Introduction, Norbert Lennartz
(Vechta); II. Byron's Marginalisation in Romantic World Literature; 1.
Byron and Weltliteratur, Nicholas Halmi (Oxford); 2. Reshaping the Romantic
Canon from the Margins: The Medial Construction of 'Byron' in Childe
Harold's Pilgrimage Ralf Haekel (Göttingen); 3. Byron and Romantic-Period
Neoclassicism Rolf Lessenich (Bonn); III. Byron's Marginal Identities and
Places; 4. 'When a man talks of system, his case is hopeless:' Byron at the
Margins of Romantic Counterculture, Friederike Wolfrum (Innsbruck); 5. At
the Margins of Europe: Byron's East Revisited: The Giaour, Stephen Minta
(York); 6. Literary Forefathers: Byron's Marginalia in Isaac D'Israeli's
Literary Character of Men of Genius, Jonathan Gross (Chicago); IV.
Cherishing the Marginal - Marginal Genres in Byron; 7. 'Like a Flash of
Inspiration:' Byron's Marginalised Lyricism in Hebrew Melodies, Michael
O'Neill (Durham); 8. Out of Romanticism: Byron and Romance, Anna Camilleri
(Oxford); 9. The Margins of Genius: Byron, Nationalism, and the Periodical
Reviews, Josefina Tuominen-Pope (Zürich); V. On the Provocative Margins of
Taste; 10. 'Stand not on that brink!¿ Byron, Gender and Romantic Suicide,
Caroline Franklin (Swansea); 11. Byron and the Good Death, Tom Mole
(Edinburgh); 12. At the Margins of Romanticism: The Women of Don Juan's
English Cantos, Drummond Bone (Oxford); VI. Marginal Affairs - Visual and
Paratextual; 13. A Marginal Interest? Byron and the Fine Arts, Richard
Lansdown (Groningen); 13. 'I ask his pardon for a postscript:' Byron's
Epistolary Afterthoughts, Jonathon Shears (Keele); VII. List of
Contributors; Index.