Byron: Heritage and Legacy Book

Foreword   Charles E. Robinson     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
List of Abbreviations     xiii
Introduction   Bernard Beatty     1
Byron's International Reception
Byron's "Fragments of Stone" in the American Court of Appeals   Nora Liassis     7
"To be redde on the banks of the Ohio!": Byron in Nineteenth-Century American Culture   Peter X. Accardo     21
Byron's Influence on Early Canadian Literature   Tracy Ware     25
Teaching Byron en Acadie: "Elle vous suit partout"   Paul M. Curtis     35
Claiming a "Great Briton" for Bulgaria: Reflections on Byron's Bulgarian Reception (1880s-1920s)   Ludmilla K. Kostova     45
The Transformations of the Byron Legend: Methodological Reassessment   Miroslawa Modrzewska     61
Influences on Byron's Work
Byron and the Dragons of Eden   Marilyn Gaull     73
My Brother's Keeper: The Biblical Heritage in Byron's Cain   Wolf Z. Hirst     83
Lord Byron, Virgil, and Thyrza   Philip J. Cardinale     93
The Handling of Hebrew Melodies   Tom Mole     103
One Ton per Square Foot: The Antecedents of The Vision of Judgement   Peter Cochran     115
Heritage and Innovation in Byron's Narrative Stanzas   Catherine Addison     127
Inheriting Humors, Legating Humor: The Will of Manfred   Bernard Beatty     139
Byron's Literary Inheritors
The Gloom and Cheerfulness of Childe Harold and Elizabeth Bennet   Shobhana Bhattacharji     151
Byron and Wordsworth: Satan's Neoclassical and Romantic Heirs   Jonathon Shears     165
Transgressing Romanticism: Byron and Heine's Carnevalesque Use of Romantic Irony   Alexandra M. Bohm     177
Byron, Darwin, and Paley: Interrogating Natural Theology   Christine Kenyon Jones     187
Byronic Anger and the Victorians   Andrew M. Stauffer     197
Afterword: The International Byron Conference, August 2001: Ideas, Inspirations, and Aftershocks$dCompiled by Cheryl A. Wilson     207
Appendix     223
Bibliography     233
Notes on Contributors     251
Index     257