Cover ; The Cambridge Introduction to Byron; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figure and tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Map: Lord Byron's Europe; Chapter 1: Life; Childhood, boyhood, youth (1788-1809); Grand Tour and years of fame (1809-1816); Exile (1816-1823); To Missolonghi (1823-1824); Epilogue; Chapter 2: Context; Politics and aristocracy; The English aristocracy; Change (1789-1824); Protest and repression; Summary; Napoleonic Europe; Causes; Conduct; Consequences; The War in the Lords; Summary; The Romantic movement; The rejection of the Enlightenment; Britain, Germany, France
Britain: a reactionary revolution?Summary; Chapter 3: The letters and journals; 'This other Byron'; Two principles of Byronism?; 'The absolute monarch of words'; 'One should see every thing once'; Characters; 'My own wretched identity'; Chapter 4: The poet as pilgrim; Early starts, true and false; Form and function; Prospects of Europe; Newstead to Athens; Waterloo to Geneva; Venice to Rome; Chapter 5: The orient and the outcast; The Aegean matrix; 'The Scorpion girt by fire'; The Giaour; Manfred; Chapter 6: Four philosophical tales; A cell: The Prisoner of Chillon; A society: Beppo
A psyche: MazeppaA culture: The Island; Chapter 7: Histories and mysteries; Three neoclassical dramas; Three mysteries; The Deformed Transformed; Chapter 8: Don Juan; Style and origins; Vision and attitude; An alternative vision; Chapter 9: Afterword; Art and music; Literature; Politics and philosophy; Notes; Preface; Chapter 1 Life; Chapter 2 Context; Chapter 3 The letters and journals; Chapter 4 The poet as pilgrim; Chapter 5 The orient and the outcast; Chapter 6 Four philosophical tales; Chapter 7 Histories and mysteries; Chapter 8 Don Juan; Chapter 9 Afterword; Further reading; Life
