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THE PLACE of LORD BYRON in WORLD HISTORY Studies in His Life, Writings, and Influence Selected Papers from the 35Th International Byron Conference THE PLACE OF LORD BYRON IN WORLD HISTORY Studies in His Life, Writings, and Influence Selected Papers from the 35th International Byron Conference Introduced and Edited by Nic Panagopoulos and Maria Schoina With a Foreword by Peter W. Graham The Edwin Mellen Press Lewiston'Queenston'Lampeter Table of Contents List of Illustrations xiii Acknowledgements xv Foreword xvii Peter W. Graham Introduction xxi Nic Panagopoulos, Maria Schoina Section I: Byron in Other Cultures and Histories 1. Byron and the History of Modern Greece from the Perspective of Polish Romanticism 3 Maria Kalinowska 2. A Story of a Quote from The Giaour 13 Miroslawa Modrzewska 3. Reading Byron in Modem Greek History: The Year 1974 27 Maria Schoina 4. Byron's Place in Literary History from the Perspective of Polish Writers and Scholars 37 Marcin Leszczynski 5. Byron as an Institution in Bulgarian Histories of Western European Literature 49 Vitana Kostadinova Section II: Byron's Constructions of History 1. Byron's Way with Historical Evidence 63 Peter Cochran 2. Lord Byron Alluding to the Great 71 Innes Merabishvili X THE PLACE OF LORD BYRON IN WORLD HISTORY 3. Ancient Greece in the Byronic Text: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto II and the Idea(s) of History in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain 79 Ivan Pregnolato 4. Byron's "historicity" and the History of Ideas 89 Ekaterini Douka-Kabitoglou 5. The Same Rehearsal of the Past: Byron and the Aesthetics of History 103 Michael O 'Neill 6. Lord Byron and Oriental Antiquity: The Location of Self 111 Naji Oueijan 7. "Hers is the loveliness in death / That parts not quite with parting breath": Byron's Anti-Utopian Images of Greece in The Giaour and Don Juan 121 James Potts 8. "The Muse of History's Pen": Byron, Venice, History, and Poetic Memory... 131 Marc Sandy Section III: Byron's Personal History 1. The Last Detachment: Byron Awakening and the Dream of Greece 143 Jerome McGann 2. Lord Byron's Political Idealism and a Row in Ravenna 153 Jack D 'Amico 3. "Thou Shalt not Set up Wordsworth": Byron's Battle to Control the Past, Present, and the To-Come 163 Madeleine Callaghan 4. From Byron's "Don Juan" to Shelley's "Ariel": The Ominous Boat, the Visceral Tempest, the Watery Bier 173 Argyros Protopapas 5. Byron, Milton, and Garden History 187 Joan Blythe 6. Byron's Collecting of Napoleona 197 John Clubbe TABLE OF CONTENTS xi Section IV: Byron's Texts in Cultural History 1. The Byronic Hero and Nietzsche's Ubermensch: Conflicted Responses to Modernity 211 Nic Panagopoulos 2. The Historicity of Manfred's Promethean Agon 223 Young-okAn 3. On the Theme of the Richard III Complex in Byron's The Deformed Transformed 235 Reiko Yoshida 4. Byron's Belles Sauvages 247 Anna Camilleri 5. Leaving Greece: Byron and the Naxos Lyric 257 Andrew Stauffer Section V: Byron as Model and Anti-Model 1. Byron and the History of Woman's Writing 267 Caroline Franklin 2. The Two Foscari: From History to Closet Drama to Grand Opera 275 Alice Levine 3. "Mazeppa," Byron, and Campbell: History and the Byronic 285 Nicholas Meihuizen 4. A Preliminary Chinese Sketch of Byron and its Revision 295 She-Ru Kao 5. Byron's Relationship with the Mechitarists as Reflected in the Works of Irving Wallace 305 Anahit Bekaryan Contributors 317 .
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