Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Peter Cochran (1944-2015): an appreciation -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I Politics of writing and reading -- 1 Byron...
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Peter Cochran (1944-2015): an appreciation -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I Politics of writing and reading -- 1 Byron criticism in the age of Margaret Thatcher and Michael Foot -- 2 Byron's lyrics and the politics of publication -- 3 Byron's manipulation of authors and addressees in his comical political poems -- 4 Byron and the politics of writing women -- 5 She walks in beauty like the night in which all cows are black: Byron's nonhuman 6 Byron, Orwell, politics and the English language -- PART II Politics in the poetry -- 7 The politics and poetry of Byron's Romantic Hellenism: Fragmentation as a discursive strategy in The Giaour -- 8 Poetry, politics and prophecy: The Age of Bronze, The Vision of Judgment and The Prophecy of Dante -- 9 Byron the Cynic -- 10 Systems and their boundaries: Byron's poetry and politics in Italy -- 11 The politics of Don Juan -- 12 'A wilderness of the most rare conceits': Imagining politics in the English cantos of Don Juan -- 13 Byron and the politics of heroic transformation PART III 'When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home…' -- 14 'I am not made for what you call a politician': Byron's silent parliamentary experiences -- 15 Byron and the 'Spanish Patriots': The poetry and politics of the Peninsular War (1808-1814) -- 16 History, prophecy, revolution: Italian politics in Byron and Foscolo -- 17 From Risorgimento to fascism: The politics of Parisina -- 18 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, British travellers to Greece and the 'idea of Europe' -- 19 The politics of altruism -- 20 Byron and Greece: lessons in 'political economy' -- Afterword -- General index Index of Byron's works
