This new Byron title approaches Byron's theatrical experiments from a wide variety of angles and is indispensable for those interested in the subject.

Cochran, Peter (ed.) Byron at the Theatre (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008).

The contents are: Peter Cochran, Byron and Drury Lane; Byron, Alfieri, and the Writing of Plays; Twentieth-Century productions of Cain; Malcolm Kelsall Byron and Baillie's Balls; Irina Shishkova, Byron as Euphorion in Goethe's Faust; Cristina Ceron, "Who shall oppose the law?" Venetian ethics versus social values in The Two Foscari; Shona Allen, Nureyev's Manfred; Monika Coghen, The Gothic and the Neoclassical in Byron's Marino Faliero; Elena Dotsenko, Byron and Pushkin as the Characters of Tom Stoppard's Plays; Mirka Horova, Lord Byron's The Deformed Transformed – The Ideals of Egalité, Fraternité, Liberté Betrayed? David Herbert and Peter Cochran, Byron's Dramatics at Harrow, Southwell and Pisa; Bernard Beatty, "Untrammelled wills and suppressed passions": Byron's neo-classical theatre.

ISBN: 9781847184276

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Jane Austen & Charles Darwin
Naturalists and Novelists
Peter W. Graham, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
The Nineteenth Century Series

“In his eloquent comparative analysis of Austen's novels and Darwin's ideas, Peter Graham combines techniques of scientific exploration and literary analysis to dissect the acute powers of observation that enabled these writers to produce works that illuminate social and collective behavior. Jane Austen and Charles Darwin emerge as intellectual kindred not only in their reliance on empiricism and serendipity, but in their relevance for the twenty-first century.”

- Laurie Kaplan, The George Washington University England Study Center (London)

Are Jane Austen and Charles Darwin the two great English empiricists of the nineteenth century? Peter W. Graham poses this question as he brings these two icons of nineteenth-century British culture into intellectual conversation in his provocative new book. Graham shows that while the one is generally termed a naturalist (Darwin's preferred term for himself) and the other a novelist, these characterizations are at least partially interchangeable, as each author possessed skills that would serve well in either arena. Both Austen and Darwin are naturalists who look with a sharp, cold eye at the concrete particulars of the world around them. Both are in certain senses novelists who weave densely particularized and convincingly grounded narratives that convey their personal observations and perceptions to wide readerships. When taken seriously, the words and works of Austen and Darwin encourage their readers to look closely at the social and natural worlds around them and form opinions based on individual judgment rather than on transmitted opinion.

Graham's four interlocked essays begin by situating Austen and Darwin in the English empirical tradition and focusing on the uncanny similarities in the two writers' respective circumstances and preoccupations. Both Austen and Darwin were fascinated by sibling relations. Both were acute observers and analysts of courtship rituals. Both understood constant change as the way of the world, whether the microcosm under consideration is geological, biological, social, or literary. Both grasped the importance of scale in making observations. Both discerned the connection between minute, particular causes and vast, general effects. Employing the trenchant analytical talents associated with his subjects and informed by a wealth of historical and biographical detail and the best of recent work by historians of science, Graham has given us a new entree into Austen's and Darwin's writings.

Contents: Introduction; '3 or 4 families in a country village', or naturalists, novelists, empiricists, and serendipitists' 'A entangled bank', or sibling development in a family ecosystem; 'Marry—Mary—marry'; Variations on variation; Select bibliography; Index.

March 2008 214 pages Hardback 978-0-7546-5851-1 $99.95/£50.00 Available at a 20% discount to members of The Byron Society of America (Sale price: $79.96/£40.00)

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Indian Renaissance
British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India Hermione de Almeida and George H. Gilpin, both at University of Tulsa

"...extraordinary and detailed survey of British art in late 18th and early 19th centuries and of the visual cultures in the English Romantic movement...This is a good social history shored up by many pictures..."

Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India is the first comprehensive examination of British artists whose first-hand impressions and prospects of the Indian subcontinent became a stimulus for the Romantic Movement in England; it is also a survey of the transformation of the images brought home by these artists into the cultural imperatives of imperial, Victorian Britain. The book proposes a second-Indian-Renaissance for British (and European) art and culture and an undeniable connection between English Romanticism and British Imperialism. Artists treated in-depth include James Forbes, James Wales, Tilly Kettle, William Hodges, Johann Zoffany, Francesco Renaldi, Thomas and William Daniell, Robert Home, Thomas Hickey, Arthur William Devis, R. H. Colebrooke, Alexander Allan, Henry Salt, James Baillie Fraser, Charles Gold, James Moffat, Charles D'Oyly, William Blake, J.M.W. Turner and George Chinnery.

Contents: Foreword; Part I: The idea of India: tiger, tree and cave: Tigers of all stripes; The great Banyan tree of India; The Cave Temple of Elephanta: eroticism and art; The Indian prospect in English Romantic art and literature; Sanskrit translations for an Indian Renaissance; The ideal of India: ancient India as the uroffenbarung of the Romantic era; Part II: Oriental fantasies and Indian prospects: Tilly Kettle's theater of India; The dancing girl of Faizabad; Artists and traders at Oudh; Edenic nights and everyday living; The paradise of the Nayars; Natural paradise and natural history; Part III: English Romantic art and the Indian prospect: The Royal Academy and the prospect of India; Patronage of learning-by a Governor General; Hodges' Indian sublime; Temple gloom and rural complexity; Conversations in Calcutta abd Oudh; The legacy of Clive and Hastings; Part IV: Storming Seringapatam: The drama and romance of empire: Little boys lost; Romantic, revolutionary Mysore; Storming Seringapatam; Imperial vision: the progress from Cornwallis to Wellesley; The view from the hill-forts; Part V: Thomas Daniell and the picturesque possession of India: 'Times are changed': early and late views of Calcutta; Travel and picturesque possession; Oriental Scenery: from Bengal to Madras, 1795-97; Twelve 'singular' Antiquities of India, 1799-1800; Objects and scenes of conquest, 1801-1803; Twenty-Four Landscapes composed too perfectly, 18041805; Singular India, 1808; Part VI: Dark prospects in the light of empire: 'Something new'-the freaks of gold; Devolution of an Indian prospect; Missionaries of empire; The imperial sublime of James Baillie Fraser; Savage forms and natural landscapes for the imperial traveler; Charles D'Oyly-the view from an elephant's back; Part VII: Elegies to an Indian Renaissance: Empire follows art: the retrospections of Hodges and Zoffany; Blake's prophecies against empire; Blake's 'Indian' epic; Turner and the dragons of empire; George Chinnery: the last Romantic artist of India; The prospect from a distance; Select bibliography; Index.

Includes 60 color and 180 b&w illustrations
February 2006
352 pages
Hardback
978-0-7546-3681-6
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Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens
Edited by Gavin Hopps and Jane Stabler, both at University of St. Andrews, UK The Nineteenth Century Series Covering the entire field of Romanticism from its eighteenth-century origins in the writing of William Cowper to late-twentieth-century manifestations in the work of Wallace Stevens, this collection is an original and much-needed intervention in Romantic studies, bringing together the contextual awareness of recent historicist scholarship with the newly awakened interest in matters of form and an appreciation of the challenges of postmodern theory. Contents: Introduction: Grace under pressure; Approaching the unapproached light: Milton and the Romantic visionary, Jonathon Shears; Cowper prospects: self, nature, society, Vincent Newey; 'Je sais bien, mais quand mêême': Wordsworth's faithful scepticism, Gavin Hopps; Catholic contagion: Southey, Coleridge and English Romantic anxieties, Timothy Webb; 'Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire', Peter Cochran; 'I was bred a moderate Presbyterian', Christine Kenyon Jones; Byron's confessional pilgrimage, Alan Rawes; Words and the word: the diction of Don Juan, Richard Cronin; 'Why should I speak?', Tony Howe; Byron's monk-y business: ghostly closure and comic continuity, Edward Burns; 'A fine excess': Hopkins, Keats, and the gratuity of grace, Corinna Russell; 'Until death tramples it to tragments', Arthur Bradley; Sacred art and profane poets, Jane Stabler; 'The death of satan': Stevens's 'Esthéétique du mal', evil, and the Romantic imagination, Michael O'Neill; Bibliography; Index. October 2006 272 pages Hardback 978-0-7546-5570-1 $99.95/££50.00

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Romanticism: Comparative Discourses
Edited by Larry H. Peer, Brigham Young University and Diane Long Hoeveler, Marquette University The Nineteenth Century Series Exploring how discourse is figured in the texts of key European Romantic authors such as Wackenroder, Coleridge, Byron, and Hugo, this volume offers nuanced readings of the syntactic, semantic, and ideological structures of Romantic works. Whether writing on Charlotte Smith's The Old Manor House or Anne Brontëë's Agnes Grey, on rescue operas or criminal drama, the contributors expand our understanding of Romantic modes of argumentation. Contents: Prologomenon to the study of romanticism's comparative discourses, Larry H. Peer and Diane Long Hoeveler. Part I: Language and Romantic Discourse Systems: Gothic opera as romantic discourse in Britain and France: a cross-cultural dialogue, Diane Long Hoeveler and Sarah Davies Cordova; Pursuing the Plerotic sublime: romantic poetry and the failure of language, Richard A. Nanian; Half-asleep on thresholds: fragile boundaries in Coleridge's 'fears in solitude', Onita Vaz; Romantic drama and the discourse of criminality, Marjean D. Purinton. Part II: Women Writers and Romantic Constructions of Power: Towards constructing a 'poetics of space' for the sentimental novel: a topo-analysis of Charlotte Smith's The Old Manor House, Nancy Metzger; The second soul-less sex? Mary Wollstonecraft and the 'Mahometan', Carolyn A. Weber; Ithuriel's spear and detecting the counterfeit: Edgeworth's Miltonic allusions in Belinda, Jeffrey Cass; Parting songs: Hemans, Landon, and Barret Browning rewrite Friederike Brun, Kari Lokke; The discourse of religious Bildung in Anne Brontëë's Agnes Grey, Larry H. Peer. Part III: Varieties of Revisionist Discourse in Romanticism: Readerly agency and the discourse of history in The Antiquary, Bonnie J. Gunzenhauser; Reading beyond Body, Cane and Crosier: Talleyrand as romantic discourse, Rodney Farnsworth; Byron and Manfred: epistolary journal into dramatic poem, D.L. Macdonald; The romantic artist on the couch: a Freudian approach to Wackenroder's musician Berlinger, Sonja E. Klocke. Index. July 2006 224 pages Hardback 978-0-7546-5374-5 $89.95/££45.00

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Byron, Sully, and the Power of Portraiture
John Clubbe, University of Kentucky, USA. From The Nineteenth Century Series. This book focuses on the history and cultural significance for Federal America of Thomas Sully's Byron, which has never before been the subject of scholarly study. The author discusses the work within the broad context of British and American portraiture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, giving the fullest account to date of Sully's career and his relation to English influences and to figures prominent in the early- nineteenth-century American imagination, among them, Washington, Fanny Kemble, Lafayette, Joseph Bonaparte, and Nicholas Biddle. Byron is discussed as an icon of the young American Republic whose Jubilee year coincided with Sully's initial work on the poet's portrait. May 2005 366 Pages Hardback 0754638146 $89.95/££ 50.00

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The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collectors
by Judith Pascoe. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the activity of collecting became democratized and popularized, allowing all kinds of people to become caught up in the collecting obsessions of the period: birds, books, Napoleonic relics, botanical specimens, Egyptiana, and fossils. Judith Pascoe invites readers to contemplate the ongoing allure of romantic collectors. Pascoe maintains that romanticism as a literary movement played a crucial supporting role in varied attempts by collectors of this era to fashion identities for themselves through collecting. She links the collecting craze during the period with the subsequent fetishization of romantic poets and their possessions, revealing the extent to which an ongoing fascination with material objects – with Keats's hair and Shelley's guitar, for example – helped to produce an enduring image of these poets as spiritual emissaries of a less materialistic age. In language both witty and idiosyncratic, Pascoe makes the case that the romantic period stands out as a distinct moment in collecting history, a transition between the flourishing of the Renaissance wonder cabinet and the rise of the Victorian museum. 2005. $35.00 cloth. With discount: $26.25/££13.87). Shipping in USA, $5.00. 240 pages. ISBN 978-0-8014-4362-6.

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Byron and Orientalism
Edited by Peter Cochran. Of all the English Romantic poets Byron is often thought of as the one who was most familiar with the East. His travels, it is claimed, give him a huge advantage with which contemporaries like Southey, Moore, Shelley, and Coleridge, who had comparable orientalist ambitions, could not compete. This books sets out to examine this thesis. Essays are included on Byron's Turkish Tales, Edward Said's attitude about Byron, Byron's version of Islam, Byron's Hebrew melodies, Byron's influence on the orientalist writings of Pushkin and Lermontov, and a comprehensive introduction. ISBN: 1904303900. Hardback. July 2006. $79.00/££ 39.99.

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British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture, Literature.
Edited by Sheila Spector. British Romanticism and the Jews explores the mutual influences exerted by the British-Christian and British-Jewish communities on each other during the period between the Enlightenment and Victorianism. The essays in the volume demonstrate how the texts produced by the Jewish Enlightenment provided a significant resource for romantic intellectual revisionism, in much the same way that British romanticism provided the cultural basis through which the British-Jewish community was able to negotiate between the competing obligations to ethnicity and nationalism. ISBN: 0-312-29522-7. 308 pp. $85.00. $59.50 with BSA discount.

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The Jews and British Romanticism.
Edited by Sheila Spector. Expanding the perspective initiated by British Romanticism and the Jews, this volume explores more deeply the complexities inherent in the relationship between the British and Jewish cultures as initiated in the English Romantic Period, extending to the present in the Middle East. ISBN: 1-4039-6454-8. 352 pp. $79.95. $55.96 with BSA discount.

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Being Shelley. Forthcoming summer 2007
by Ann Wroe. This book takes the life of one of England's greatest poets and turns it inside out. Rather than following a daily round in which poetry erupts occasionally, it tracks the inner adventures of a spirit struggling to escape and create. This is the life of the poet, rather than the man. Four questions consumed Shelley and coloured everything he wrote. Who, or what, was he? What was his purpose? Where had he come from? And where was he going? He sought the answers in order to free and empower not only himself, but the whole human race. His revolution would shatter the earth's illusions, shock men and women with new visions, find true Love and Liberty – and take everyone with him. Now, for the first time, this passionate and radical quest is put at the centre of Shelley's life. The result is a spiritual journey that is as dangerous and exhilarating as it is astonishing. This is Shelley as he has never been seen before. Being Shelley is illustrated throughout with Shelley's own sketches from his notebooks, some unpublished until now. Ann Wroe is a senior editor on The Economist, and writes its Obituaries. She is the author of five books, including a biography of Pontius Pilate. She lives in London. UK Publ. Jonathan Cape, July 2007. ££ 25. US Publ. Pantheon, August 2007. $30.00.

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