Byromania

This collection of essays by leading Byronists explores the development of the myth of Byron and the Byronic from the poet's self-representations to his various appearances in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and in drama, film and portraiture. Byromania (as Annabella Milbanke named the frenzied reaction to Byron's poetry and personality) looks at the phenomena of Byronism through a variety of critical perspectives, and it is designed to appeal to both an academic and a popular readership alike.

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Plates Introduction: Byron, Byronism, and Bryomaniacs; F.Wilson His Grand Show: Byron and the Myth of Mythmaking; P.W.Graham Conjuring Byron: Byromania, Literary Commodification and the Birth of Celebrity; G.MacDaytor The Life of Byron or, Southey Was Right; P.Cochran Silver-Fork Byron and the Image of Regency England; A.Elfenbein Byronic Bioplays; W.Huber Fantasy and Transfiguration: Byron and His Portraits; C.K.Jones Screening Byron: The Idiosyncrasies of Film Myth; R.M.Ralston & S.L.Sondergard Undead Byron; T.Holland The Loathsome Lord and the Disdainful Dame: Byron, Cartland and the Regency Romance; R.Sales Byronic Confession; J.Soderholm An Exaggerated Woman: The Melodramas of Lady Caroline Lamb; F.Wilson Appendix: Byron in Fiction: A List of Books; A.A.Smith Index