This exciting collection represents a range of scholarly approaches and include close textual study, comparative readings, and broad cultural analysis. Contributors to this collection include Bernard Beatty, Peter Cochran, Marilyn Gaull, Charles E. Robinson, Andrew Stauffer, and Timothy Webb.

Autorentext
Cheryl A. Wilson is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Inhalt
PART I: BYRON'S INTERNATIONAL RECEPTION Byron's 'Fragments of Stone' in the United States Court of Appeals; N.Liassis Byron in America; P.X.Accardo Byron's Influence on Early Canadian Literature; T.Ware Teaching Byron en Acadie:Elle Vous Suit Partout; P.Curtis Claiming a Great Briton for Bulgaria: Reflections on Byron's Bulgarian Reception (1880s-1920s); L.Kostova The Transformations of the Byron Legend: Methodological Reassessment; M.Modrzewsksa PART II: INFLUENCES ON BYRON'S WORK Byron and the Dragons of Eden; M.Gaull My Brother's Keeper: Biblical Heritage in Byron's Cain; W.Z.Hirst Byron and Virgil: 1799-1807; P.Cardinale The Handling of Hebrew Melodies; T.Mole One Ton per Square Foot: The Antecedents to The Vision of Judgment; P.Cochran Heritage and Innovation in Byron's Narrative Stanzas; C.Addison Inheriting Humours, Legating Humour: The Will of Manfred; B.Beatty PART III: BYRON'S LITERARY INHERITORS The Gloom and Cheerfulness of Childe Harold and Elizabeth Bennet; S.Bhattacharji Byron and Wordsworth: Satan's Neo-Classical Romantic Heirs; J.Shears Leigh Hunt and the Free Spirit of Byron; T.Webb Transgressing Romanticism: Byron and Heine's Carnevalesque use of Romantic Irony; A.M.Böhm Byron, Darwin, and Paley: Interrogating Natural Theology; C.Kenyon Jones Byronic Anger and the Victorians; A.M.Stauffer Byron's Legacy with Contributors Remarks; C.A.Wilson