Lord ByronSeries Editors: Kinley E. Roby, Northeastern University; Herbert Sussman, Northeastern University; Joseph Bartolomeo, University of Massachusetts; George Economou, University of Oklahoma; Arthur F. Kinney, University of Massachusetts. TWAYNES UNITED STATES AUTHORS, ENGLISH AUTHORS, and WORLD AUTHORS Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writers work. A reader new to the work under examination will, after reading the Authors Series, be compelled to turn to the originals, bringing to the reading a basic knowledge and fresh critical perspectives. Each volume features: a critical, interpretive study and explication of the authors works; a brief biography of the author; an accessible chronology outlining the life, work, and relevant historical background of the author; aids for further study -- complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography, and an index; and a readable style presented in a manageable length. |
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... contemporary culture . Accordingly , it seemed appropriate that the fron- tispiece and dust jacket present something other than an archival or canonical view of Byron . Instead , what's reproduced here is " Byron East and West , " a ...
... contemporary scientific theories advanced by Buffon , Cuvier , Fontenelle , or Fourier ; romantic literature's interest in the " last man " motif ; " Monk " Lewis's visit , which turned the Diodati circle's attention toward the gothic ...
... contemporary readers as licentious immorality , Shelley and many readers in subsequent generations have deemed it the greatest long poem since Paradise Lost . It is a masterpiece whose subject , as Hazlitt shrewdly noticed , is its own ...