Byron and Marginality

Norbert Lennartz is Full Professor of English Literature at the University of Vechta, in Germany. He specialises in 19th-century British literature and culture, and is particularly interested in Lord Byron, Charles Dickens’s dark novels and Byronic reverberations in late Victorian and Modernist literature.

• Introduction: Lord Byron – Wandering and Wavering between the Centres and Margins of Romanticism: An Attempt at an Introduction, Norbert Lennartz (Vechta)　Byron’s Marginalisation in Romantic World Literature1. Byron and Weltliteratur, Nicholas Halmi (Oxford)2. Reshaping the Romantic Canon from the Margins: The Medial Construction of ‘Byron’ in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Ralf Haekel (Göttingen)3. Byron and Romantic-Period Neoclassicism Rolf Lessenich (Bonn)　Byron’s Marginal Identities and Places4. ‘When a man talks of system, his case is hopeless:’ Byron at the Margins of Romantic Counterculture, Friederike Wolfrum (Innsbruck)5. At the Margins of Europe: Byron’s East Revisited: The Giaour, Stephen Minta (York)6. Literary Forefathers: Byron’s Marginalia in Isaac D’Israeli’s Literary Character of Men of Genius, Jonathan Gross (Chicago)　Cherishing the Marginal – Marginal Genres in Byron 7. ‘Like a Flash of Inspiration:’ Byron’s Marginalised Lyricism in Hebrew Melodies, Michael O’Neill (Durham)8. Out of Romanticism: Byron and Romance, Anna Camilleri (Oxford)9. The Margins of Genius: Byron, Nationalism, and the Periodical Reviews, Josefina Tuominen-Pope (Zürich)　On the Provocative Margins of Taste10. ‘Stand not on that brink!̕ Byron, Gender and Romantic Suicide, Caroline Franklin (Swansea)11. Byron and the Good Death, Tom Mole (Edinburgh)12. At the Margins of Romanticism: The Women of Don Juan’s English Cantos, Drummond Bone (Oxford)Marginal Affairs – Visual and Paratextual 13. A Marginal Interest? Byron and the Fine Arts, Richard Lansdown (Groningen)　14. ‘I ask his pardon for a postscript:’ Byron’s Epistolary Afterthoughts, Jonathon Shears (Keele)　List of Contributors; Index

Literary studies often focus either on centrality or on what lies beyond, as if demarcation between cohesion and disparity were a thin line with no space of its own. Surveying centres and margins in Byron’s work, Norbert Lennartz introduces his collection of fifteen critical explorations into the wide margins: geographical, historical, cultural and moral.