Byron in Context - A new essay collection edited by Clara Tuite
Published by Cambridge University Press in October 2019, Byron in Context features essays by local contributors and ERCC Research Associate Tom Ford.
The ERCC is delighted to congratulate ERCC Co-Director and Lead Researcher Clara Tuite on the recent publication of Byron in Context.
Book description:
George Gordon, the sixth Lord Byron (1788–1824), 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.
The book includes chapters by a number of local Australian contributors and friends of the ERCC, including 'Natural Philosophy' by ERCC Research Associate Dr Thomas H. Ford (La Trobe University), 'War' by Dr Neil Ramsey (UNSW Canberra), 'Greece's Byron' by Spiridoula Demetriou (PhD candidate in Art History, University of Melbourne), and 'Contemporary Critical Reception to 1824' by Professor Will Christie (Head, Humanities Research Centre, ANU). As well as editing the volume, Clara Tuite has also contributed a chapter on '"Literatoor" and Literary Theory'.