Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-296) and index.
Byron's life and his biographers / Paul Douglass -- Byron and the business of publishing / Peter W. Graham -- Byron's politics / Malcolm Kelsall -- Byron : gender and sexuality / Andrew Elfenbein -- Heroism and history : Childe Harold I & II and the Tales / Philip W. Martin -- Byron and the eastern Mediterranean : Childe Harold II and the 'Polemic of Ottoman Greece' / Nigel Leask -- 1816--17 : Childe Harold III and Manfred / Alan Rawes -- Byron and the theatre / Alan Richardson -- Childe Harold IV, Don Juan and Beppo / Drummond Bone -- The Vision of Judgment and the visions of 'author' / Susan J. Wolfson -- Byron's Prose / Andrew Nicholson -- Byron's lyric poetry / Jerome McGann -- Byron and Shakespeare / Anne Barton -- Byron and the eighteeth century / Bernard Beatty -- Byron's European reception / Peter Cochran -- Byron, postmodernism and intertextuality / Jane Stabler.