Byron in Context

George Gordon The Sixth Lord Byron (17881824) Was One Of The Most Celebrated Poets Of The Romantic Period As Well As A Peer Politician And Global Celebrity Famed Not Only For His Verse But For His Controversial Lifestyle And Involvement In The Greek War Of Independence. In Thirty-Seven Concise Accessible Essays By Leading International Scholars This Volume Explores The Social And Intertextual Relationships That Informed Byron''S Writing; The Geopolitical Contexts In Which He Travelled Lived And Worked; The Cultural And Philosophical Movements That Influenced Changing Outlooks On Religion Science Modern Society And Sexuality; The Dramatic Landscape Of War Conflict And Upheaval That Shaped Napoleonic And Post-Napoleonic Europe And Regency Britain; And The Diverse Cultures Of Reception That Mark The Ongoing Byron Phenomenon As A Living Ecology In The Twenty-First Century. This Volume Illuminates How We Might Think Of Byron In Context But Also As A Context In His Own Right.