Byron: Heritage and Legacy

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Byron’s “Fragments of Stone” in the American Court of Appeals....Pages 7-19
“To be redde on the banks of the Ohio!”: Byron in Nineteenth-Century American Culture....Pages 21-24
Byron’s Influence on Early Canadian Literature....Pages 25-34
Teaching Byron en Acadie: “Elle vous suit partout”....Pages 35-44
Claiming a “Great Briton” for Bulgaria: Reflections on Byron’s Bulgarian Reception (1880s–1920s)....Pages 45-59
The Transformations of the Byron Legend: Methodological Reassessment....Pages 61-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Byron and the Dragons of Eden....Pages 73-82
My Brother’s Keeper: The Biblical Heritage in Byron’s Cain....Pages 83-92
Lord Byron, Virgil, and Thyrza....Pages 93-102
The Handling of Hebrew Melodies....Pages 103-113
One Ton per Square Foot: The Antecedents of The Vision of Judgement....Pages 115-125
Heritage and Innovation in Byron’s Narrative Stanzas....Pages 127-138
Inheriting Humors, Legating Humor: The Will of Manfred....Pages 139-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
The Gloom and Cheerfulness of Childe Harold and Elizabeth Bennet....Pages 151-163
Byron and Wordsworth: Satan’s Neoclassical and Romantic Heirs....Pages 165-175
Transgressing Romanticism: Byron and Heine’s Carnevalesque Use of Romantic Irony....Pages 177-186
Byron, Darwin, and Paley: Interrogating Natural Theology....Pages 187-196
Byronic Anger and the Victorians....Pages 197-205
Afterword....Pages 207-221
Back Matter....Pages 223-262