Palgrave Advances in Byron Studies

STEVEN BRUHM Professor of English, Mount St Vincent University, University of Halifax, USAPETER COCHRAN Editor of the Newstead Byron Society ReviewPAUL M. CURTIS Teaches English Language and Literature at L'Université de Moncton, CanadaCAROLINE FRANKLIN Professor of English, University of Wales, Swansea, UKSHE-RU KAO (also known as PAMELA KAO) Recently received her PhD from the University of Bristol, UKPETER J. KITSON Professor of English, University of Dundee, UKGHISLAINE MCDAYTER Associate Professor of English, Bucknell University, USATIMOTHY MORTON Professor of Literature and the Environment, University of California, Davis, USADAVID PUNTER Professor of English, University of Bristol, UKPHILIP SHAW Reader in English Literature, University of Leicester, UKMICHAEL SIMPSON Lecturer, English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmith's College, University of London, UKNANORA SWEET Teaches English and Women's Studies. University of Missouri-St Louis, USASUSAN J. WOLFSON Professor of English, Princeton University, USA

• Notes on Contributors Chronology List of Abbreviations Introduction; J.Stabler Byron and the Choreography of Queer Desire; S.Bruhm Byron and the Politics of Editing; P.Cochran Byron and Digression; P.Curtis Byron and History; C.Franklin Byron and Post-Colonial Criticism: the 'Eastern Tales'; P.Kitson Byron and Twentieth-Century Popular Culture; G.McDayter Byron's Manfred and Eco-criticism; T.Morton Byron's Werner and Psychoanalytic Criticism; D.Punter & P.Kao Byron in Theory and Theatre Land; M.Simpson Byron's Childe Harold and War; P.Shaw Byron's Childe Harold and Intertextuality; N.Sweet Don Juan and the Shiftings of Gender; S.J.Wolfson Index

'...an excellent introduction to the "current state" of Byron Studies that also offers a number of original and valuable interventions...this collection of essays is, by turns, informative, instructive, suggestive, stimulating and provocative.' - Alan Rawes, British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin& Review