Byron

1. Introduction
Bernard Beatty

Part I. Byron’s International Reception

2. Byron’s “Fragments of Stone” in the American Court of Appeals
Nora Liassis

3. “To be redde on the banks of the Ohio!”: Byron in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Peter X. Accardo

4. Byron’s Influence on Early Canadian Literature
Tracy Ware

5. Teaching Byron en Acadie: “Elle vous suit partout”
Paul M. Curtis

6. Claiming a “Great Briton” for Bulgaria: Reflections on Byron’s Bulgarian Reception (1880s–1920s)
Ludmilla K. Kostova

7. The Transformations of the Byron Legend: Methodological Reassessment
Mirosława Modrzewska

Part II. Influences on Byron’s Work

8. Byron and the Dragons of Eden
Marilyn Gaull

9. My Brother’s Keeper: The Biblical Heritage in Byron’s Cain
Wolf Z. Hirst

10. Lord Byron, Virgil, and Thyrza
Philip J. Cardinale

11. The Handling of Hebrew Melodies
Tom Mole

12. One Ton per Square Foot: The Antecedents of The Vision of Judgement
Peter Cochran

13. Heritage and Innovation in Byron’s Narrative Stanzas
Catherine Addison

14. Inheriting Humors, Legating Humor: The Will of Manfred
Bernard Beatty

Part III. Byron’s Literary Inheritors

15. The Gloom and Cheerfulness of Childe Harold and Elizabeth Bennet
Shobhana Bhattacharji

16. Byron and Wordsworth: Satan’s Neoclassical and Romantic Heirs
Jonathon Shears

17. Transgressing Romanticism: Byron and Heine’s Carnevalesque Use of Romantic Irony
Alexandra M. Böhm

18. Byron, Darwin, and Paley: Interrogating Natural Theology
Christine Kenyon Jones

19. Byronic Anger and the Victorians
Andrew M. Stauffer

20. Afterword
Cheryl A. Wilson

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Literary History