Chapter Introduction: An Epic Connection -- part Part I: Perspectives on Goethe's Faust -- chapter 1 'Eine Tragödie'? Goethe's Faust in Theory -- chapter 2 Faust I in Romantic-period Britain -- part PART II: BYRON, SHELLEY, AND FAUST -- chapter 3 Infernal Irony: Faust, Cain, and…
Aspects of Byron's Don Juan is, in part, a proceedings volume from the 2012 conference held by the Newstead Byron Society at Nottingham Trent University. Speakers represented in the book include Malcolm Kelsall, Peter Cochran, Diego Saglia and Itsuyo Higashinaka. Topics range fr…
"In The Literary Relationship of Lord Byron and Thomas Moore, Vail reconstructs the social, political, and literary contexts of both writers' works through extensive consultation of nineteenth-century sources - including hundreds of contemporary reviews and articles on the two w…
Byron's mannerist digressive style and his 'theatricality' are a method of literary and cultural discourse based on the concepts of irony, paradox and reflectivity that were practised in seventeenth-century literature and culture. This results in the discursive split in the poet…