Bernard Beatty
Biographic Data
| ID | 3955824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernard Beatty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernard |
| FAMILY NAME | Beatty |
| SIGNATURE | BEATTY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Cambridge Companion to Byron: Second Edition
Deeply informed and appealingly written, this revised and updated second edition gives fresh life to the enthralling sexual, poetic and political contradictions that make Byron the first literary celebrity. Encompassing his entire oeuvre, the volume both provides an authoritative guide for students, and points to emerging new areas of research, highlighting Byron's ongoing relevance in an increasingly complex world both within academia and beyond…
Improvisation and Hybrid Genres: ReadingChilde Harold's Pilgrimage
In the first section I ask two questions: what sort of a poem is Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, and what is the immediate experience of reading it in sequence? These two questions are the practical equivalents of the main terms of my title. I try to answer them by reconstructing a first reading of the poem in the light of my own experience and the imagined one of the first readers of the poem. I suggest that two terms—accretion and elimination—are h…
Byron's Don Juan
First published in 1985. What sort of poem is Don Juan, and how does it maintain its momentum through its long and often struggling narrative? These are the questions that Bernard Beatty proposes in this subtle and elegant discussion of Byron’s masterwork. The legend of Don Juan was entrenched in European literature and other arts long before it came under Byron’s hands, yet Byron’s treatment of the story is often almost unrecognisably far from i…
The Cambridge Companion to Byron
Byron's life and work have fascinated readers around the world for two hundred years, but it is the complex interaction between his art and his politics, beliefs and sexuality that has attracted so many modern critics and students. In three sections devoted to the historical, textual and literary contexts of Byron's life and times, these specially commissioned essays by a range of eminent Byron scholars provide a compelling picture of the diversi…
The force of ‘Celtic memories’ in Byron's thought
Byron is customarily thought of as an English poet and not infrequently claimed as a Scottish poet but, despite Matthew Arnold's insistence that the ‘Celtic passion of revolt’ is titanically embodied in Byron, he is not normally thought of as a Celtic poet. This volume prompts us to ask if there is any useful sense in which he might be thought to be one, and whether Byron himself entertained this possibility? A passage in Byron's last major poem,…
The Form of Oscar: Wilde's Art of Substitution
(2003). The Form of Oscar: Wilde's Art of Substitution. Irish Studies Review: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 33-49
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Lord (1788–1824)
Byron was born in London in 1788, inherited his title at the age of ten, moved from Scotland to the Byrons’ dilapidated estate near Nottingham (Newstead Abbey, which is the basis for ‘Norman Abbey’ in Don Juan, XIII–XVII), and was educated at Harrow and Cambridge. In 1809–11 he made a tour of Portugal, Spain, Greece and Turkey which he described in the first two cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. With the publication of these in 1812 he found …
Peterloo
‘Peterloo’ or ‘the Peterloo Massacre’ was the name coined almost immediately after the event to refer to the violent dispersal of 60,000 people gathered in St Peter’s Fields, Manchester, on 16 August 1819 to hear ‘Orator’ John Hunt. The meeting was called to support parliamentary reform in general, and to elect Hunt as ‘representative’ for Manchester. It formed part of a pattern of meetings and agitation, begun in the aftermath of Waterloo, deman…
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Byron, George Gordon, sixth Lord (1788–1824)
Byron was born in London in 1788, inherited his title at the age of ten, moved from Scotland to the Byrons’ dilapidated estate near Nottingham (Newstead Abbey, which is the basis for ‘Norman Abbey’ in Don Juan, XIII–XVII), and was educated at Harrow and Cambridge. In 1809–11 he made a tour of Portugal, Spain, Greece and Turkey which he described in the first two cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. With the publication of these in 1812 he found …
Peterloo
‘Peterloo’ or ‘the Peterloo Massacre’ was the name coined almost immediately after the event to refer to the violent dispersal of 60,000 people gathered in St Peter’s Fields, Manchester, on 16 August 1819 to hear ‘Orator’ John Hunt. The meeting was called to support parliamentary reform in general, and to elect Hunt as ‘representative’ for Manchester. It formed part of a pattern of meetings and agitation, begun in the aftermath of Waterloo, deman…
The force of ‘Celtic memories’ in Byron's thought
Byron is customarily thought of as an English poet and not infrequently claimed as a Scottish poet but, despite Matthew Arnold's insistence that the ‘Celtic passion of revolt’ is titanically embodied in Byron, he is not normally thought of as a Celtic poet. This volume prompts us to ask if there is any useful sense in which he might be thought to be one, and whether Byron himself entertained this possibility? A passage in Byron's last major poem,…
The Form of Oscar: Wilde's Art of Substitution
(2003). The Form of Oscar: Wilde's Art of Substitution. Irish Studies Review: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 33-49
The Cambridge Companion to Byron
Byron's life and work have fascinated readers around the world for two hundred years, but it is the complex interaction between his art and his politics, beliefs and sexuality that has attracted so many modern critics and students. In three sections devoted to the historical, textual and literary contexts of Byron's life and times, these specially commissioned essays by a range of eminent Byron scholars provide a compelling picture of the diversi…
Byron's Don Juan
First published in 1985. What sort of poem is Don Juan, and how does it maintain its momentum through its long and often struggling narrative? These are the questions that Bernard Beatty proposes in this subtle and elegant discussion of Byron’s masterwork. The legend of Don Juan was entrenched in European literature and other arts long before it came under Byron’s hands, yet Byron’s treatment of the story is often almost unrecognisably far from i…
Improvisation and Hybrid Genres: ReadingChilde Harold's Pilgrimage
In the first section I ask two questions: what sort of a poem is Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, and what is the immediate experience of reading it in sequence? These two questions are the practical equivalents of the main terms of my title. I try to answer them by reconstructing a first reading of the poem in the light of my own experience and the imagined one of the first readers of the poem. I suggest that two terms—accretion and elimination—are h…
The Cambridge Companion to Byron: Second Edition
Deeply informed and appealingly written, this revised and updated second edition gives fresh life to the enthralling sexual, poetic and political contradictions that make Byron the first literary celebrity. Encompassing his entire oeuvre, the volume both provides an authoritative guide for students, and points to emerging new areas of research, highlighting Byron's ongoing relevance in an increasingly complex world both within academia and beyond…
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