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Byron in Context Edited by Clara Tuite Index More Information Www Cambridge University Press 978-1-316-63267-3 — Byron in Context Edited by Clara Tuite Index More Information 333 Index Note : Page numbers in bold refer to fi gures. 1001 Nights , 94 , 96 Batrachomyomachia , 155 Baudelaire, Charles, 292 Abrams, M. H., 167 – 8 , 175 Baumgarten, Alexander Addison, Joseph, 145 , 147 Refl ections on Poetry , 238 Agg, John, 57 – 8 Bayle, Pierre Albrizzi, Isabella Teotochi, 209 Dictionnaire historique et critique , 103 Alfi eri, Vittorio, 223 – 4 Beaton, Roderick, 217 Ali Pasha, 20 , 162 Beattie, James Alvanley, Lord, 136 Minstrel, Th e , 161 Analytical Review , 249 Becher, John, 17 Angelo, Henry, 19 , 29 Beckford, William, 21 , 161 Anti- Jacobin Review , 249 , 257 – 8 Vathek , 94 , 97 , 105 , 162 Apollonius of Rhodes Beerbohm, Max, 134 Argonautica , 154 Behn, Aphra, 126 Ariosto, Ludovico, 154 – 6 , 161 Bellingham, John, 68 Orlando Furioso , 154 Benbow, William, 54 – 5 Aristotle, 152 Benjamin, Walter, 151 Arnold, Matthew, 293 – 4 , 300 Bentham, Jeremy, 82 “Memorial Verses,” 293 Benzoni, Countess Marina Querini, 210 Astell, Mary, 206 Berlioz, Hector, 96 Atlantic Monthly , 287 Bernays, Leopold, 59 Auden, W. H., 194 Berry, Agnes, 209 Austen, Jane, 97 , 99 , 208 Berry, Mary, 209 Persuasion , 260 Betty, William, 111 Australian, Th e , 8 2 Bible, 102 , 104 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine , 9 , 32 , 215 , Baillie, Joanna, 206 – 7 , 259 250 – 1 , 257 , 259 , 262 De Monfort , 2 8 Blair, Hugh Bancroft, George, 292 Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres , 243 Banti, Brigida, 111 Blake, William, 184 – 5 , 226 Barathier, Mathieu Auguries of Innocence , 187 Lord Biron Dédié aux Romantiques , 1 – 3 Edward the Th ird , 222 Barbauld, Anna, 207 Blaquiere, Edward, 78 Eighteen Hundred and Eleven , 207 Blessington, Lady, 286 Baretti Guiseppe Conversations with Lord Byron , 298 Dissertation Upon the Italian Poetry , 154 Bligh, William, 164 Barrett Browning, Elizabeth, 292 bluestockings, 180 , 206 – 13 , 251 Aurora Leigh , 293 in Don Juan , 110 , 210 – 11 , 213 “Stanzas on the Death of Lord Byron,” 292 Boccaccio, 34 , 180 333 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-316-63267-3 — Byron in Context Edited by Clara Tuite Index More Information 334 334 Index Bolt, Robert fi nancial anxieties, 25 – 6 Lady Caroline Lamb, 299 grand tour, 19 – 20 , 23 , 71 , 78 , 95 Bone, Drummond, 148 – 9 Greek expedition, 3 , 36 , 77 – 85 , 284 , see also Bossu, René Le Greek War of Independence ; London Traité du poème épique , 152 Greek Committee Bourdieu, Pierre Philhellenism, 76 – 7 , 82 , 98 , 104 , 149 , 271 , Distinction , 242 274 – 5 , 278 , 292 Bowles, William Lisle, 124 , 207 incest accusation, 231 , 233 – 4 , 287 Pope– Bowles controversy, 124 , 126 , 145 , 147 , Italy, 90 – 1 , 209 , 214 149 , 177 , 240 Italian language, 86 – 7 Sonnets , 168 literary canonization, 3 , 44 , 262 , 299 Bowring, Sir John, 78 , 80 masculinity, 6 , 120 , 131 – 8 , 283 – 4 , 286 , Boyce, Susan, 28 291 , 295 British Critic , 201 , 249 , 257 performativity, 23 , 31 , 132 , 232 , 236 , 291 British East India Company, 106 political career, 18 , 20 – 1 , 79 , 106 , 233 British Review , 240 – 1 , 257 Catholic emancipation, 64 , 68 , 104 Brontë sisters, 185 , 290 , 293 maiden speech on Frame Work Bill, 27 , Charlotte Brontë 64 – 7 Jane Eyre , 292 as Whig, 63 – 4 , 68 Emily Brontë popular culture, Byron in, 297 – 304 Wuthering Heights , 292 , 299 posthumous reception, 44 , 266 , 273 – 9 , 281 , Brougham, Henry, 19 , 21 , 86 , 248 , 257 , 259 289 – 95 Brummell, George “Beau,” 18 , 21 , 134 – 6 , 138 radical sympathies, 72 , 184 , 214 , 218 , 265 , Bryant, William Cullen, 289 – 90 see also celebrity, Bryon as radical icon Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Romanticism studies, 305 , 307 Pelham , 291 sexuality, 28 – 9 , 33 , 117 – 23 Bunn, Alfred, 223 bisexuality, 98 , 119 Burdett, Sir Francis, 68 , 267 homosexuality, 19 , 29 , 120 , 285 Burke, Edmund, 99 theater, 26 – 8 , see also Drury Lane Th eatre Burney, Frances, 207 amateur theatricals, 18 , 35 Cecilia , 208 theater- going, 33 , 89 , 233 Wanderer, Th e , 208 theatricality, 114 , 149 , 286 , 295 Burns, Robert, 169 – 71 , 294 warfare, views on, 72 – 6 Butler, Marilyn, 106 , 113 , 249 women, 35 , 89 , 231 – 5 , 285 – 7 Butler, Revd. Dr. George, 20 a ff airs with, 23 , 28 , 88 Byron, Ada (later Lady Lovelace, d. of B. amanuenses and collaborators, 32 , 41 and Lady Byron), 35 , 86 salonnières, 207 , 209 – 10 addressed in CHP , 172 , 233 writers, 206 – 13 , 293 “rediscovery” of, 306 on writing, 29 , 46 Byron, Allegra (d. of B. and Claire Clairmont), Byron, Mrs. Catherine Gordon (Byron’s 35 , 86 , 104 , 165 mother), 15 – 17 , 21 , 24 , 102 Byron, Captain John (Byron’s father), 15 Byron, Lord William (Byron’s great- uncle), 15 Byron, Lady, see Milbanke, Annabella Byron’s works (Byron’s wife) Age of Bronze, Th e , 36 , 54 Byron, George Gordon, Lord Beppo , 40 , 53 , 55 , 87 – 9 , 91 , 97 – 8 , 146 – 8 , animals, 17 , 21 – 2 , 25 191 , 302 autobiography, see literary genre, and dandyism, 136 , 138 autobiography and ottava rima , 33 , 156 , 244 bibliographies of works, 53 and satire, 178 – 81 biographical subject, 235 , 281 – 8 , 298 Blues, Th e , 212 , 218 – 19 Byronic hero, 83 , 165 , 234 , 281 , 289 and Coleridge, 239 compositional processes, 38 – 44 Bride of Abydos, Th e , 68 , 164 , 278 , 302 dandyism, 131 – 8 circulation, 298 death, 2 – 3 , 37 , 69 , 76 , 191 , 230 , 282 Lambro inspired by Ali Pasha, 20 disability, 15 , 17 , 131 – 3 reception, 261 exile, 31 – 7 , 233 , 260 as social allegory, 94 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-316-63267-3 — Byron in Context Edited by Clara Tuite Index More Information 335 Index 335 Cain , 34 , 51 , 55 , 184 – 6 , 224 , 227 – 8 , 263 , 265 “Epistle to Augusta,” 193 and geology, 113 – 14 Fare Th ee Well!, 57 , 171 , 197 , 233 , 267 reception, 260 , 262 translation by Heine, 277 and theology, 102 , 268 Fugitive Pieces , 41 , 46 , 257 Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage , 3 , 16 , 18 – 19 , 22 – 4 , suppressed by Byron, 46 31 , 33 , 42 , 47 – 8 , 67 – 8 , 82 , 93 , 129 , 145 – 6 , Giaour, Th e , 29 , 93 , 105 – 6 , 155 , 164 , 207 , 270 , 155 , 171 – 2 , 179 , 193 – 4 , 207 , 231 , 233 , 239 , 276 – 7 279 , 292 , 297 , 299 and Beckford’s Vathek , 105 , 162 and Byron’s grand tour, 95 , 165 circulation, 298 and Byron’s subjectivity, 31 , 91 composition, 39 , 42 expensive quarto edition, 43 , 48 reception, 261 and Italian culture, 87 , 211 Heaven and Earth , 35 , 102 , 186 , 218 – 19 , 224 , 228 as literary romance, 162 – 4 Hebrew Melodies , 41 , 56 , 104 , 167 – 9 , 283 , 302 and nature, 193 collaboration with Nathan, 169 reception, 33 , 43 , 49 , 167 , 261 reception, 167 on religion, 107 Hints from Horace , 34 , 147 , 177 and theology, 103 Hours of Idleness , 18 , 46 , 54 , 111 , 207 , 238 – 9 warfare, scenes of, 71 attacked by Edinburgh Review , 9 , 246 , Corsair, Th e , 50 , 93 , 95 , 98 – 9 , 164 , 167 , 267 , 257 – 60 , 263 276 , 278 , 299 reception, 259 , 261 as ballet, 96 , 291 Island, Th e , 3 , 36 , 164 , 229 circulation, 298 Lament of Tasso, Th e , 87 , 194 reception, 261 Lara , 93 – 4 , 98 , 164 , 276 , 299 Curse of Minerva, Th e , 20 , 56 , 178 , 278 reception, 261 Deformed Transformed, Th e , 102 , 138 , 186 – 7 , Letter to the Editor of “My Grandmother’s 224 , 228 Review,” 240 and masculine self- fashioning, 131 , 138 Letter to John Murray Esqre ., 239 – 40 “Detached Th oughts,” 24 , 134 , 136 – 7 “Love and Death,” 167 “ Th e Devil’s Drive,” 239 Manfred , 18 , 25 , 28 , 32 , 40 , 42 , 128 , 147 – 8 , Don Juan , 15 , 19 , 24 – 5 , 34 – 6 , 40 – 1 , 51 , 54 – 6 , 179 , 186 , 188 , 194 , 222 – 3 , 226 – 7 , 231 , 74 , 91 , 98 , 138 , 143 , 147 – 9 , 152 , 154 – 7 , 233 – 6 , 276 , 299 164 – 5 , 172 – 3 , 178 , 180 – 1 , 188 , 190 – 2 , hints at incest, 234 , 261 194 – 5 , 200 , 216 , 240 – 1 , 246 , 252 , 258 , reception, 261 275 , 277 , 283 , 290 , 292 , 294 , 307 , 310 sexual transgression, 119 , 121 and bluestockings, see bluestockings staged at Covent Garden, 223 composition, 39 – 40 subjectivity, 308 – 10 and dandyism, 131 , 136 – 8 Marino Faliero , 127 , 223 , 226 – 7 and ottava rima , 121 , 244 staged at Drury Lane, 224 published anonymously, 51 , 267 – 8 Mazeppa , 33 , 164 , 302 reception, 36 , 43 , 260 , 262 – 3 Observations Upon Observations , 240 rhetoric of expertise (resists), 241 – 2 “Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill,” 67 and science, 110 – 11 “Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte,” 40 and sexual pluralism, 119 – 20 “On Th is Day I Complete My Th irty Sixth and subjective mobility, 305 Year,” 2 , 82 , 167 suppressed Dedication, 191 , 197 – 8 , 200 Parisina , 25 , 164 , 226 , 231 warfare, scenes of, 74 Poems , 168 “E Nihilo Nihil,” 146 Poems on Various Occasions , 46 , 257 “Edinburgh Ladies’ Petition to Doctor Moyes Prisoner of Chillon, Th e , 32 , 41 – 2 , 50 and his Reply,” 111 , 114 Prophecy of Dante, Th e , 88 , 154 , 194 , 223 English Bards and Scotch Reviewers , 18 , Sardanapalus , 19 , 34 , 54 , 93 , 99 , 227 , 231 , 263 26 , 54 , 56 , 176 – 7 , 190 , 192 , 197 , 209 , and dandyism, 131 , 136 – 8 246 – 7 , 260 reception, 244 Byron attempts to suppress, 48 staged at Drury Lane, 224 and literary canon, 144 Siege of Corinth, Th e , 164 , 194 , 197 and literary criticism, 239 reception, 261 reception, 47 , 261 “Sketch from Private Life, A,” 57 , 210 , 233 , 267 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-316-63267-3 — Byron in Context Edited by Clara Tuite Index More Information 336 336 Index Byron’s works (cont.) Churchill, Charles, 31 , 144 “So, We’ll Go No More A Roving,” 170 Cicero, 145 Some Observations Upon an Article in Clairmont, Claire, 32 , 35 , 212 , 215 , 235 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Clare, John, 9 , 270 240 Clare, Lord, 16 “Song for the Suliotes, A,” 167 Clarke, Susanna “Stanzas to Augusta,” 233 Jonathan Strange and Mr.
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