CHAPTER TWELVE Byron

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editors’ Preface viii
4. INTRODUCTION What is Scottish Romanticism? 1
5. SECTION I The Scottish Public Sphere: Themes, Groups and Identities
6. CHAPTER ONE Ballads and Chapbooks 13
7. CHAPTER TWO Romantic Macpherson 27
8. CHAPTER THREE Scottish Song, Lyric Poetry and the Romantic Composer 39
9. CHAPTER FOUR Gaelic Literature and Scottish Romanticism 49
10. CHAPTER FIVE Travel Writing and the Picturesque 61
11. CHAPTER SIX Urban Space and Enlightened Romanticism 72
12. CHAPTER SEVEN Periodicals and Public Culture 84
13. CHAPTER EIGHT The Scottish National Tale 100
14. CHAPTER NINE Religion and Scottish Romanticism 112
15. SECTION II Authors and Texts
16. CHAPTER TEN Robert Burns and Romanticism in Britain and Ireland 127
17. CHAPTER ELEVEN Walter Scott’s Romanticism: A Theory of Performance 139
18. CHAPTER TWELVE Byron 150
19. CHAPTER THIRTEEN John Galt’s Fictional and Performative Worlds 166
20. CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner 178
21. CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Function of Linguistic Variety in Walter Scott’s The Heart of Midlothian 190
22. Endnotes 202
23. Further Reading 238
24. Notes on Contributors 243
25. Index 246