Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Editions and Abbreviations x
6. 1 Lord Byron, Wandering and Wavering between the Centres and Margins of Romanticism: An Attempt at an Introduction 1
7. I. Byronʼs Marginalisation in Romantic World Literature
8. 2 Byron and Weltliteratur 17
9. 3 Reshaping the Romantic Canon from the Margins: The Medial Construction of ‘Byron’ in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 40
10. 4 Byron and Romantic Period Neoclassicism 57
11. II. Byronʼs Marginal Identities and Places
12. 5 ‘When a man talks of system, his case is hopeless’: Byron at the Margins of Romantic Counterculture 75
13. 6 At the Margins of Europe: Byron’s East Revisited and The Giaour 98
14. 7 Literary Forefathers: Byron’s Marginalia in Isaac D’Israeli’s Literary Character of Men of Genius 116
15. III. Cherishing the Marginal – Marginal Genres in Byron
16. 8 ‘Like a Flash of Inspiration’: Byron’s Marginalised Lyricism in Hebrew Melodies 141
17. 9 Out of Romanticism: Byron and Romance 166
18. 10 The Margins of Genius: Byron, Nationalism and the Periodical Reviews 186
19. IV. On the Provocative Margins of Taste
20. 11 ‘Stand not on that brink!’: Byron, Gender and Romantic Suicide 205
21. 12 Byron and the Good Death 233
22. 13 At the Margins of Romanticism: The Women of Don Juan’s English Cantos 254
23. V. Marginal Affairs – Visual and Paratextual Aspects in Byron
24. 14 A Marginal Interest? Byron and the Fine Arts 269
25. 15 ‘I ask his pardon for a postscript’: Byron’s Epistolary Afterthoughts 291
26. List of Contributors 308
27. Index 313