The Byron Society of America

New from Haus Publishing at a 30% Discount to BSA Members:
In Byron's Footsteps by Tessa de Loo. Translated by Andy Brown.

When Tessa de Loo saw Albania for the first time, no foreigners were allowed to enter. Filled with a great curiosity, longing, and a sense of wonderment by this isolated land, de Loo gazed toward the mountains that stood like 'the backs of patiently waiting elephants' across the water from Corfu. Inspired by the famous Thomas Phillips portrait of Lord Byron in Albanian national costume, de Loo stole her way in and found a country suffering the hardships of post-communist reality and the constant and sometimes fractious clash between tradition and modernity. in the tradition of Bruce Chatwin, de Loo has written a fascinating travelogue and a very personal reassessment of the life and works of Lord Byron. For ordering information visit: http://www.hauspublishing.com/product/334.

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New from Palgrave Macmillan at a 40% discount to BSA members
Byron and the Rhetoric of Italian Nationalism_ by Arnold Anthony Schmidt.
June 2010. ISBN 9780230616004. 220 pages. $80.00

Making extensive use of untranslated texts, Byron and the Rhetoric of Italian Nationalism analyzes the incorporation of Byron's life and works into Italian political discourse during the Risorgimento, unification, and the two world wars. Italian authors appreciated his celebration of liberty and nationalism so much that between 1818 and 1948, they referred to Byron more than to any other non-Italian poet. Arnold Anthony Schmidt explores the intellectual milieu of Byron's Italian years, his participation in Grand Tour and salon culture, his influence on Italian Classicists and Romantics, and his importance in constructing Italy's national identity.

Praise:
"Schmidt's book shows with impressive detail and thorough argument that the mythical image of Byron was as important to the development of the Italian nationalist ideal as it had been to the Greek. From Pellico via Cavour and Garibaldi to (whisper it) Mussolini himself, Byron's preparedness to sacrifice himself for Italian freedom and nationhood was an example to them all. A tour-de-force of documentation and analysis."
- Peter Cochran, Cambridge

"Schmidt's Byron and the Rhetoric of Italian Nationalism is a fascinating and expertly-researched addition to our understanding of Byron not just as a British Romantic poet but as an international cultural phenomenon. Positioning Byron in the context of European liberal nationalism, Schmidt demonstrates how although in Britain Byron's scandalous lifestyle and provocative writings tended to overshadow his liberal leanings, in Italy he became an inspiration to the emergent nationalist movement…The book will be of value not just to Byron scholars but to anyone interested in the cultural impact of Romanticism."
- Clare A. Simmons, Department of English, The Ohio State University

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New from Palgrave Macmillan at a 40% discount to BSA members: Blake on Language, Power, and Self-Annihilation by John Jones.
May 2010. ISBN 9780230622357. 250 pages. $80.00 Hardcover.

Against a historical backdrop that includes eighteenth-century language theory, children's literature and education, debates on the French Revolution, Biblical interpretation, and print culture, Blake on Language, Power, and Self-Annihilation breaks new ground in the study of William Blake. This book analyzes the concept of self-annihilation in Blake's work, using the language theories of Mikhail Bakhtin to elucidate the ways in which his discourse was open to the viewpoints of others, undermines institutional authority, and restores dialogue. This book not only uncovers the importance of seld-annihilation to Blake's thinking about language and communication, but it also develops its centrality to Blake's poetic practice.

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New from Wayne State University Press at a 30% discount to BSA members. Byron and the Jews by Sheila Spector.

Despite their religious and geographic differences, the British poet Lord Byron shared certain attitudes about politics, institutionalized religion, and individual identity that made him very popular with Jewish readers. In Byron and the Jews, author Sheila A. Spector investigates why, of all the British Romantic poets, Byron is the most frequently translated into Hebrew and Yiddish and how Jews used translations of Byron's works to help construct a new Jewish identity.

Spector begins by examining Byron's interaction with contemporary Jewish writers Isaac D'Israeli and Isaac Nathan and investigates how the writers translated each other. The following three chapters demonstrate how the Byron translations interrelated with intellectual leaders of the three cultural movements that dominated Jewish culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the Maskilim, the Yiddishists, and the Zionists. Spector's conclusion explores the theoretical inference implicit in this study—that the act of translation inevitably produces an allegorical reading of a text that may be contrary to an author's original intention.

A useful appendix contains transcriptions of many of the texts discussed in this volume, as few of these Hebrew and Yiddish translations are readily available elsewhere. Not only are portions of all of the translations represented, but different versions are included so that readers can see for themselves how Byron was adapted for different Jewish interpretive communities. Scholars of Byron, Jewish identity, and those interested in translation and reception studies will appreciate this insightful volume.

"I do not know of any other book on the subject or any other scholar who knows as much about these translations as Sheila Spector. _Byron and the Jews_ will compliment other books on British literature and Judaism."
-Judith W. Page

July 2010. ISBN 9780814334423. $59.95. For promotion code contact membership@byronsociety.org.

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New! Cambridge Scholars Publishing
30% Discount to Byron Society of America members:

Byron and Scott: The Waverley Novels and Historical Engagement by Roderick S. Speer. £34.99/$52.99, 125pp, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4438-0587-2.

Literary historians have repeatedly observed that while Scott as a poet was the first British literary lion of the nineteenth century, his fame was supplanted by Byron as a poet starting in 1812. But that is as far as they take the relationship seriously, for the two writers are traditionally thought of as very different, even as political and temperamental opposites. But in fact, the two writers met each other in 1815, liked each other, and cherished their friendship the rest of their lives. The story of their relationship in personal terms was not over.

Nor was the literary relationship, this study ventures. Scott embarked on an entirely new career in 1814, inventing the historical novel. Byron was swept away by these "Waverley novels," and in his years of exile to the Continent from 1816 on, repeatedly beseeched his publisher to send Scott's latest novels. The position here is that those novels were important to Byron's development in both literary and existential respects. Byron's historical dramas, his _Don Juan_, _The Island_, and his final fling into the Greek Revolution, show an evolution of both the Byronic Hero and Byron himself in a context his friend Scott had opened up for him.

"Longer than anyone else, Roderick Speer has thought about and lived with the interactions both personal and literary of the Byron-Scott relationship. This rich and ever-fascinating subject has demanded a comprehensive study for decades. Here it is at last."
- John Clubbe

"A much-needed revision of the standard view of the Scott-Byron relationship, in life as well as in art. Speer's insights are new, and should cause us to read both authors afresh."
- Peter Cochran

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New! Audio of interest to Byronists
Featuring the work of BSA member Jonathan Gross

Celebrate Black History Month with this new release featuring the poetry of Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes. Cullen, who studied with Hyde Rollins at NYU, was influenced by the poetry of Byron and Keats among others. Members can purchase the cd directly from amazon.com at a sizable discount.

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New at a 40 % discount to BSA members from SUNY UP:

Byromania and the Birth of Celebrity Culture by Ghislaine McDayter.

Byromania and the Birth of Celebrity Culture argues that Byron's popularity, particularly among women, marked the beginning of celebrity as a cultural industry. For nearly two hundred years, Romantic criticism has maintained distinctions between Byron the politically engaged poet and Byron the object of obsessive feminine adulation, or "Byromania." Ghislaine McDayter asserts that this distinction results more from the preferences of critics rather than discrepancies inherent in Byron's poetry. Drawing upon recent scholarship on nineteenth-century politics of sexuality and perversity, this book extends the discussion into the realm of feminine desires and fantasy. Rather than isolating Byron from the mania he excited, McDayter uses unpublished fan letters and anonymous contemporary poetry to argue that it was precisely Byron's involvement with popular culture and feminine hysteria that in part made him so politically influential. Contents include illustrations. Hardcover $75.00 / Paperback $24.95. ISBN 978-1-4384-2525-2 Website

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Pasdeloup Press (Ontario, Canada) has just published Jerome McGann's Byron's Manfred. This is the text of the play that includes the original third act and also makes other cuts and changes in order to expose the work's core poetical structure and ethical argument. The book includes a series of original illustrations by the Canadian artist Virgil Burnett and an Afterword by Professor McGann explaining briefly the rationale of the work.

The book is $15 Canadian – and if ordered from outside of Canada with US dollars, postage would be included. To order send an email to christian@pandorapress.com. They will ship the book to the individual making the order accompanied by an invoice.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing:
Lord Byron: The Complete Works in 13 volumes
Editor: Peter Cochran
Date Of Publication: July 2009
ISBN13: 978-1-4438-0602-2
ISBN: 1-4438-0602-1

Lord Byron remains, as he was to many of his contemporaries, the defining personality of his age and time, the quintessential late-Romantic: one whose life matched the freedom of imagination and possibility of his poetry, charismatic, irresistible, shocking and, of course, dying young. The full range of his work, however, reveals a less straightforward and less stereotypical writer than this: a thinker as well as a feeler, a poet rather than merely a sensationalist, someone who justifies his towering literary reputation as much as his scandalous one.

This edition collects all of Byron's poetical works, including his plays and material omitted from early editions. It also contains a large selection of prose, including the journals, around half the known letters (a larger selection than hitherto available in a budget edition) and some translations and letters to magazines. All the works have been newly typeset for this edition, including ordering and correctly positioning the originally censored material. Leading Byron scholar Dr. Peter Cochran has written new critical introductions to the poetry and prose for this edition, including historical and literary context and contemporary and subsequent critical reception, plus a bibliography and chronology of Byron's life.

The contents of the volumes are:
• Volumes 1-7: Introduction to the poetical works by Dr. Peter Cochran;
Poetry (including plays)
• Volumes 8-13: Introduction to the prose works by Dr. Peter Cochran;
Letters, journals and prose

The basis of the texts is Ernest Hartley Coleridge's edition of the poetry and Rowland E. Prothero's edition of the prose (as published uniformly, London: John Murray, 1898). Further letters have been added from the texts in John Murray, ed., Lord Byron's Correspondence (London: John Murray, 1922, 2 vols.) and from electronic texts supplied by Peter Cochran, and incorporated silently into the chornological sequence and numbering of the series. Additional poems and portions of Childe Harold initially suppressed have been supplied from the online edition by Peter Cochran (www.internationalbyronsociety.org) and incorporated silently into the sequence.

Dr. Peter Cochran, editor of the Newstead Byron Society Review, editor of Byron's works and correspondence for the website of the International Byron Society and writer and lecturer on Byron, has written a new critical introduction to the poems and another to the prose, including a chronology of Byron's life, bibliography, context of the works, contemporary and subsequent reception, and notes on the texts.

Price UK GBP: 129.99 - Available at a 30% Discount to BSA Members
Price US USD: 199.99 - Available at a 30% Discount to BSA Members

New at a 30% discount to Byron Society members from Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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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Romanticism and Byron
Author: Peter Cochran
Date Of Publication: Jan 2009
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-0113-3
Isbn: 1-4438-0113-5

Available at a 30% Discount from $67.99 USD to BSA members

Romanticism and Byron is a book in two parts: In the first part, Dr Cochran examines "Romanticism" and shows that it is a word meaning anything, and therefore nothing. It is an academic construct created by academics, and has no basis in the writings of the early nineteenth century. Its continued use, argues Dr Cochran, is a modern marketing phenomenon solely. In the second part, Dr Cochran examines the life and work of Byron in the non-"romantic" context of his contemporaries. He shows how Byron's antithetical nature created problems when he was forced into compromising situations with friends who were close to parts of his mind, yet irreconcilable with one another. This "mobility", argues Cochran, was often an embarrassment for Byron's social life, but of great benefit to his creativity. This part of the book features chapters on Shelley, Scott, Blake, Keats, Coleridge and Wordsworth, and is notable for the amount of original archive documentation with which Cochran illustrates his theme.

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.

We offer a 30% discount to members of the Byron Society of America members for titles on Byron or any other Romantics. Any orders can be sent directly to Vlatka Kolic by e-mail or by telephone (0191 274 7224). Please mention your membership to the Byron Society of America so that the appropriate discount is applied.

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20% Discount to BSA Members from W.W. Norton

Benjamin Markovits
A Quiet Adjustment

A psychological thriller of passionate attachment and emotional cruelty, involving a love triangle between Lord Byron, his half-sister, and his wife.

To dissolve a dreadfully mistaken union between two formidable egos: surely it should only take "a quiet adjustment"? Inspired by the actual biography of Lord Byron—the greatest literary figure and most notorious sex symbol of his age—Benjamin Markovits reimagines Byron's marriage to the capable, intellectual, and tormented Annabella and the scandal that broke open their lives and riveted the world around them: Byron's incestuous relationship with his impetuous half-sister, Gus. Their very different understandings of love and obligation lead them all—and the reader—headlong to a devastating conclusion.

Acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic for his memorable prose and acute sense of character, Markovits here sets a new standard for the literary historical novel. A Quiet Adjustment is at once immersed in its period, an homage to Byron and his work, and a thoroughly modern fiction in the psychologically incisive vein of Ian McEwan and Colm Tóibín.

Benjamin Markovits is a 2008–9 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. Alongside his fiction, he also contributes to the New York Times, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, and other publications.

September 2008 / hardcover / ISBN 978-0-393-06700-2
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" / 352 pages / Fiction

Also available at a 20% discount by Benjamin Markovits:
Imposture

A love affair based on a case of mistaken identity, set in an impeccable re-creation of nineteenth-century London. Lord Byron was the greatest writer and most notorious, scandalous lover of his age—an irresistible attraction for a sheltered, bookish, and passionate young woman like Eliza Esmond. Eliza believes she's met Byron on the doorstep of his publisher, and that her dreams have come true when he arranges to meet her in secret. But what if the man she believes to be Byron is someone else—a look-alike named John Polidori, who once toured Europe as Byron's doctor? And if Polidori is the true author of a wildly successful book everyone believes to have been written by Byron, who is the real imposter?

Stylish, subtle, and seductive, Imposture is about ambition, fantasy, the power of artistic greatness, and the consequences of celebrity—by a gifted novelist of true talent. Reading group guide available.

"Mr. Markovits's writing makes the ordinary unforgettable."
- Richard Eder, New York Times

Benjamin Markovits grew up in Texas and London. Alongside his fiction he writes for The New York Times Book Review, The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, and other publications. He lives in London.

May 2007 / paperback original / ISBN 978-0-393-32973-5
6" x 8" / 288 pages / Fiction

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Special Offer from Ashgate Publishing to BSA members:

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..."

-Choice

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
$144.95/£75.00

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Ashgate Publishing available at a 20% discount to BSA members:

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

Available at a 20% discount to members of The Byron Society of America (Sale price: $79.96/££40.00). If you would like to place an order, please email membership@byronsociety.org for the promotion code and then call customer service at 1-800-535-9544. Alternatively, you may order online at www.ashgate.com.

Prices do not include shipping and handling fees. For orders within North America, shipping is $6 for the first book and $1 for each additional book. For orders outside of North America, shipping is $15 for the first book and $2.50 for each additional book. This offer is valid until December 31, 2007 and may not be combined with any other discounts.

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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Special Offer from Cornell University Press and available at a 25% discount to BSA members:

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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Available at a 30% discount to BSA members from Palgrave Macmillan:

Byron's Romantic Celebrity by Tom Mole (McGill University)
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Reviews 'This superb book provides an adroit analysis of the ways that a specifically Romantic celebrity culture informs Byron's oeuvre - from the Frame Bill ode to Don Juan. Yet it does much more than that. In fact, Mole manages to recontextualize the entire concept of Romantic fame as a complex interplay between industrial print culture, historical individuals, and the readerly paradigms of the era. It is this broader lens that enables the book to shine new light on such issues as Romantic subjectivity, authorship, visual iconography, and the nineteenth-century dialectic between public and private.' - Professsor Michael Macovski, Georgetown University, USA Description This book provides one case study in a history that has yet to be written, of a phenomenon that has yet to be adequately theorised. It argues that modern celebrity culture began in the Romantic period, and that Lord Byron should be understood as one of its earliest examples and most astute critics. Tom Mole approaches celebrity as a cultural apparatus - consisting of the relations between an individual, an industry and an audience - that took shape in response to the industrialised print culture of the Romantic period. Under that rubric he investigates the often strained interactions of artistic endeavour and commercial enterprise, the material conditions of Byron's publications, and the place of celebrity culture in the history of the self. Byron's Romantic Celebrity sheds new light on the Romantic poetics of personality by showing how commercial collaboration and creative compromise made a public profile possible.

Tom Mole is Assistant Professor of English at McGill University, Canada. He is the editor of a volume of Blackwood's Magazine 1817-1825 (2006) and has published articles in Romanticism, the Keats-Shelley Journal, the Byron Journal and Nineteenth-Century Contexts.

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