Book contents
- Byron in Context
- Byron in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Part I Life and Works
- Part II Political, Social and Intellectual Transformations
- Part III Literary Cultures
- Part IV Reception and Afterlives
- Further Reading
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 October 2019
- Byron in Context
- Byron in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Note on the Text
- Introduction
- Part I Life and Works
- Part II Political, Social and Intellectual Transformations
- Part III Literary Cultures
- Part IV Reception and Afterlives
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
The literary canon notoriously ignores context. Canonization removes authors from their particular domain of production and reception, ushering them into the transcendent realm of the classical pantheon – remote, unchanging and monumentalized. All those pesky contingencies of time and place fall away, and the canonized work is left, supposedly, to speak for itself.
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- Byron in Context , pp. 1 - 12Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019