Contents

pp v-vi

Foreword

pp vii-vii

Acknowledgements

pp viii-ix

Editions and Abbreviations

pp x-x

1 - Lord Byron, Wandering and Wavering between the Centres and Margins of Romanticism: An Attempt at an Introduction

pp 1-16

I - Byron’s Marginalisation in Romantic World Literature

pp 17-18

2 - Byron and Weltliteratur

pp 19-39

3 - Reshaping the Romantic Canon from the Margins: The Medial Construction of ‘Byron’ in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

pp 40-56

4 - Byron and Romantic Period Neoclassicism

pp 57-74

II - Byron’s Marginal Identities and Places

pp 75-76

5 - ‘When a man talks of system, his case is hopeless’: Byron at the Margins of Romantic Counterculture

pp 77-97

6 - At the Margins of Europe: Byron’s East Revisited and The Giaour

pp 98-115

7 - Literary Forefathers: Byron’s Marginalia in Isaac D’Israeli’s Literary Character of Men of Genius

pp 116-140

III - Cherishing the Marginal – Marginal Genres in Byron

pp 141-142

8 - ‘Like a Flash of Inspiration’: Byron’s Marginalised Lyricism in Hebrew Melodies

pp 143-165

9 - Out of Romanticism: Byron and Romance

pp 166-185

10 - The Margins of Genius: Byron, Nationalism and the Periodical Reviews

pp 186-204

IV - On the Provocative Margins of Taste

pp 205-206

11 - ‘Stand not on that brink!’: Byron, Gender and Romantic Suicide

pp 207-232

12 - Byron and the Good Death

pp 233-253

13 - At the Margins of Romanticism: The Women of Don Juan’s English Cantos

pp 254-268

V - Marginal Affairs – Visual and Paratextual Aspects in Byron

pp 269-270

14 - A Margi nal Interest? Byron and the Fine Arts

pp 271-290

15 - ‘I ask his pardon for a postscript’: Byron’s Epistolary Afterthoughts

pp 291-307

List of Contributors

pp 308-312

Index

pp 313-318