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The Regency period in general, and the aristocrat-poet Lord Byron in particular, were notorious for scandal, but the historical circumstances of this phenomenon have yet to be properly analysed. Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity explores Byron's celebrity persona in the literary, social, political and historical contexts of Regency Britain and post-Napoleonic Europe that produced it. Clara Tuite argues that the Byronic enigma that so compelled contemporary audiences - and provoked such controversy with its spectacular Romantic Satanism - can be understood by means of 'scandalous celebrity', a new form of ambivalent fame that mediates between notoriety and traditional forms of heroic renown. Examining Byron alongside contemporary figures including Caroline Lamb, Stendhal, Napoleon Bonaparte and Lord Castlereagh, Tuite illuminates the central role played by Byron in the literary, political and sexual scandals that mark the Regency as a vital period of social transition and emergent celebrity culture.

Fame --- Scandals --- Literature and society --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- History --- Celebrity --- Renown --- Glory --- Social aspects --- Byron, George Gordon Byron, --- Byron, George Gordon Byron --- Baĭron, Dzhordzh Gordon --- Baĭron, G. --- Baĭron, Jorj, --- Bairon, --- Bajron, Džordž Gordon --- Bajron, --- Bajroni, Xhorxh --- Bayrěn, --- Bayron, --- Bayron, Tzōrtz Gkorton Bayron --- Bayrūn --- Byron, George Gordon Noël Byron --- Byron, Jerzy Gordon --- Byron, --- Gordon, George --- Mpayron, Tzōrtz Nkorton Mpayron --- Pai-lun --- Payrěn --- Vyrōn --- בײראָן, לאָרד --- בירון --- בירון, לורד --- בירון, ג׳ורג׳ גורדון נואל, --- בירון, ג'ורג' גורדון בירון, --- בייראן --- בייראן, --- בייראן, לארד --- ביירון, לורד --- ביירון, --- Political and social views. --- Influence. --- Lord Byron --- Byron --- Byron, George Gordon Noël

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Roderick Beaton re-examines Lord Byron's life and writing through the long trajectory of his relationship with Greece. Beginning with the poet's youthful travels in 1809-1811, Beaton traces his years of fame in London and self-imposed exile in Italy, that culminated in the decision to devote himself to the cause of Greek independence. Then comes Byron's dramatic self-transformation, while in Cephalonia, from Romantic rebel to 'new statesman', subordinating himself for the first time to a defined, political cause, in order to begin laying the foundations, during his 'hundred days' at Missolonghi, for a new kind of polity in Europe - that of the nation-state as we know it today. Byron's War draws extensively on Greek historical sources and other unpublished documents to tell an individual story that also offers a new understanding of the significance that Greece had for Byron, and of Byron's contribution to the origin of the present-day Greek state.

Byron, George Gordon Byron, --- Baĭron, Dzhordzh Gordon, --- Baĭron, G., --- Baĭron, Jorj, --- Bairon, --- Bajron, Džordž Gordon, --- Bajron, --- Bajroni, Xhorxh, --- Bayrěn, --- Bayron, --- Bayron, Tzōrtz Gkorton Bayron, --- Bayrūn, --- Byron, George Gordon Noël Byron, --- Byron, Jerzy Gordon, --- Byron, --- Gordon, George, --- Mpayron, Tzōrtz Nkorton Mpayron, --- Pai-lun, --- Payrěn, --- Vyrōn, --- בײראָן, לאָרד --- בירון --- בירון, לורד --- בירון, ג׳ורג׳ גורדון נואל, --- בירון, ג'ורג' גורדון בירון, --- בייראן --- בייראן, --- בייראן, לארד --- ביירון, לורד --- ביירון, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Knowledge --- Greece. --- Greece --- Civilization --- Influence. --- In literature. --- Byron, George Gordon Byron --- Baĭron, Dzhordzh Gordon --- Baĭron, G. --- Bajron, Džordž Gordon --- Bajroni, Xhorxh --- Bayron, Tzōrtz Gkorton Bayron --- Bayrūn --- Byron, George Gordon Noël Byron --- Byron, Jerzy Gordon --- Gordon, George --- Mpayron, Tzōrtz Nkorton Mpayron --- Pai-lun --- Payrěn --- Vyrōn --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grèce --- Grecia --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ελλάς --- Ελλάδα --- Греция --- اليونان --- يونان --- 希腊 --- Lord Byron --- Byron --- Byron, George Gordon Noël --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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Once the dominant literary form, poetry was gradually eclipsed by the realist novel; indeed, by 1940 W. H. Auden was able to note, "Poetry makes nothing happen." In The Perversity of Poetry, Dino Franco Felluga explores the cultural background of poetry's marginalization by examining nineteenth-century reactions to Romantic poetry and ideology. Focusing on the work of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, as well as periodical reviews, student manuals, and contemporary medical journals, the book details the period's two contending (and equally outrageous) claims regarding poetry. Scott's poetry, on the one hand, was continually represented as a panacea for a modern world overtaken by new principles of utilitarianism, capitalism, industrialism, and democracy. Byron's, by contrast, was represented either as a cancer in the heart of the social order or as a contagious pandemic leading to various pathological symptoms. The book concludes with a coda on Alfred Lord Tennyson, which illustrates how the Victorian reception of Scott and Byron affected the most popular poetic genius of midcentury. Ultimately, The Perversity of Poetry uncovers how the shift to a rhetoric of health allowed critics to oppose what they perceived as a potent and potentially dangerous influence on the age, the very thing that would over the course of the century be marginalized into such obscurity: poetry, thanks to its perverse insistence on making something happen.

Men in literature. --- Genius in literature. --- Masculinity in literature. --- Romanticism --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- English poetry --- Popular literature --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Creative ability in art --- Creative ability in literature --- Art --- Imagination --- Inspiration --- Literature --- Creative ability --- Originality --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Male authors --- Scott, Walter, --- Byron, George Gordon Byron, --- Author of "Waverley," "Ivanhoe," &c., --- Cleishbotham, Jedediah, --- Layman, --- Malagrowther, Malachi, --- Paul, --- S., W. --- Scott, W. --- Skott, Valʹter, --- Skott, Walter, --- Somnambulus, --- Ssu-ko-tʻe, --- Ssu-ko-tʻe, Wa-erh-tʻe, --- Sukotsu, --- Sukotto, --- Templeton, Laurence, --- W. S. --- Wa-erh-tʻe Ssu-ko-tʻe, --- "Waverley," "Ivanhoe," &c., Author of, --- סקאט, וואלטער, --- סקוט, וולטר, --- Byron, George Gordon Byron --- Baĭron, Dzhordzh Gordon --- Baĭron, G. --- Baĭron, Jorj, --- Bairon, --- Bajron, Džordž Gordon --- Bajron, --- Bajroni, Xhorxh --- Bayrěn, --- Bayron, --- Bayron, Tzōrtz Gkorton Bayron --- Bayrūn --- Byron, George Gordon Noël Byron --- Byron, Jerzy Gordon --- Byron, --- Gordon, George --- Mpayron, Tzōrtz Nkorton Mpayron --- Pai-lun --- Payrěn --- Vyrōn --- בײראָן, לאָרד --- בירון --- בירון, לורד --- בירון, ג׳ורג׳ גורדון נואל, --- בירון, ג'ורג' גורדון בירון, --- בייראן --- בייראן, --- בייראן, לארד --- ביירון, לורד --- ביירון, --- Appreciation. --- Poetic works. --- Scott, Walter --- Author of "Waverley," "Ivanhoe," &c. --- Cleishbotham, Jedediah --- Malagrowther, Malachi --- Paul --- Skott, Valʹter --- Skott, Walter --- Somnambulus --- Ssu-ko-tʻe --- Ssu-ko-tʻe, Wa-erh-tʻe --- Sukotsu --- Sukotto --- Templeton, Laurence --- Wa-erh-tʻe Ssu-ko-tʻe --- "Waverley," "Ivanhoe," &c., Author of --- Lord Byron --- Byron --- Byron, George Gordon Noël --- History and criticism --- Appreciation --- Great Britain --- 19th century --- Scott, Walter, Sir --- Masculinity in literature --- Men in literature --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

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840 "18" DE STAEL, ANNE LOUISE GERMAINE NECKER --- 820 "18" BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL --- Women authors, French --- -Literature, Comparative --- -Poets, English --- -English poetry --- -English literature --- English poets --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- French women authors --- Franse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--DE STAEL, ANNE LOUISE GERMAINE NECKER --- Engelse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL --- Biography --- English and French --- French and English --- French influences --- History and criticism --- Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron --- -Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron --- -Staël Madame de --- -Friends and associates --- Knowledge --- -Literature --- Friends and associates --- Influence --- -Franse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--DE STAEL, ANNE LOUISE GERMAINE NECKER --- 820 "18" BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL Engelse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL --- 840 "18" DE STAEL, ANNE LOUISE GERMAINE NECKER Franse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899--DE STAEL, ANNE LOUISE GERMAINE NECKER --- -English poets --- English poetry --- Poets, English --- Byron, George Gordon Byron, --- Staël, --- Baĭron, Dzhordzh Gordon, --- Baĭron, G., --- Baĭron, Jorj, --- Bairon, --- Bajron, Džordž Gordon, --- Bajron, --- Bajroni, Xhorxh, --- Bayrěn, --- Bayron, --- Bayron, Tzōrtz Gkorton Bayron, --- Bayrūn, --- Byron, George Gordon Noël Byron, --- Byron, Jerzy Gordon, --- Byron, --- Gordon, George, --- Mpayron, Tzōrtz Nkorton Mpayron, --- Pai-lun, --- Payrěn, --- Vyrōn, --- בײראָן, לאָרד --- בירון --- בירון, לורד --- בירון, ג׳ורג׳ גורדון נואל, --- בירון, ג'ורג' גורדון בירון, --- בייראן --- בייראן, --- בייראן, לארד --- ביירון, לורד --- ביירון, --- De Staël, --- Holstein, Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, --- Necker, Anne-Louise-Germaine, --- Necker, Germaine, --- Staël, Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, --- Staël, Germaine de, --- Staël-Holstein, Anna-Louise-Germaine Necker, --- Staël-Holstein, Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, --- Stalʹ, Zhermena de, --- Friends and associates. --- Literature. --- Influence. --- Literature [Comparative ] --- Poets [English ] --- 19th century --- Byron, George Gordon Byron, - Baron, - 1788-1824 - Friends and associates. --- Byron, George Gordon Byron, - Baron, - 1788-1824 - Knowledge - Literature. --- Staêl, - Madame de - (Anne-Louise-Germaine), - 1766-1817 - Friends and associates. --- Staêl, - Madame de - (Anne-Louise-Germaine), - 1766-1817 - Influence. --- Women authors, French - 19th century - Biography. --- Стаэль Голстеинъ, --- Byron, George Gordon Byron --- Baĭron, Dzhordzh Gordon --- Baĭron, G. --- Bajron, Džordž Gordon --- Bajroni, Xhorxh --- Bayron, Tzōrtz Gkorton Bayron --- Bayrūn --- Byron, George Gordon Noël Byron --- Byron, Jerzy Gordon --- Gordon, George --- Mpayron, Tzōrtz Nkorton Mpayron --- Pai-lun --- Payrěn --- Vyrōn --- Staël --- de Staël, Germaine --- de Staël, --- Madame de Staël --- Lord Byron --- Byron --- Byron, George Gordon Noël