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The Burning of Byron’s Memoirs
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The Burning of Byron’s Memoirs

New and Unpublished Essays and Papers
By: Peter Cochran

£57.99

A collection of essays on Byron’s life and work, informed by primary texts. The title essay is hailed as the best-ever documentation of the disgraceful destruction of Byron’s Memoirs. For anyone interested in Byron, this is essential reading.

The Burning of Byron’s Memoirs is a collection of new and uncollected essays, and papers given at many conferences over a two-decade period. They cover…
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The Burning of Byron’s Memoirs is a collection of new and uncollected essays, and papers given at many conferences over a two-decade period. They cover many aspects of Byron’s life and work, including his relationship with his parents, his library, his attitude to Shakespeare, his borrowings from other writers, and his feelings about women and men. Two essays centre on his close friends Hobhouse and Kinnaird. All are informed by first-hand acquaintance with primary texts. The title essay has been hailed as the best-ever documentation of the disgraceful way in which Byron’s Memoirs were destroyed within days of his death being announced.

For anyone interested in Byron either as a man, a poet, or as a cultural phenomenon, The Burning of Byron’s Memoirs is essential reading.

Peter Cochran is well-known internationally as a Byron scholar. He edits the poet’s works and correspondence on the website of the International Association of Byron Societies.

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-4438-6815-9
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4438-6815-0
  • Date of Publication: 2014-11-28

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-4438-7400-0
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4438-7400-7
  • Date of Publication: 2014-11-28
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Subject Codes:

  • BIC: BG, DCF, DSBF
  • BISAC: LIT004120, LIT024040, LIT014000, LCO009000, LCO010000
  • THEMA: DNB, DCF, DSBF
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  • "[T]he thirty-six essays and papers in this volume ... provide a representative taste of the staggering breadth of Cochran’s knowledge. There are essays on everything from Byron’s dirty jokes to his use of Shakespeare, his little-known charitable works, and the books he kept in his personal library. The glee that Cochran takes in stirring up his readers and fellow scholars (his papers have titles like “Why the English Hate Byron”) and his pervasive humour ... mirrors similar traits in Byron himself."
    - Corin Throsby Times Literary Supplement, 8.6.2016

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