The Reception of Byron in Europe

Richard Cardwell was given the Elma Dangerfield Award of the International Byron Society for the best book on Byron in 2005-06

Byron, arguably, was and remains the most famous and infamous English poet in the modern period in Continental Europe. From Portugal in the West to Russia in the East, from Scandinavia in the North to Spain in the South he inspired and provoked, was adored and reviled, inspired notions of freedom in subject lands and, with it, the growth of national idealisms which, soon, would re-draw the map of Europe. At the same time the Byronic persona, incarnate in "Childe Harold", "Manfred", "Lara" and others, was received with enthusiasm and fear as experience demonstrated that Byron's Romantic outlook was two-edged, thrilling and appalling in the same moment. All the great writers—Goethe, Mickiewicz, Lermontov, Almeida Garret, Espronceda, Lamartine, among many others—strove to outdo, imitate, revise, and integrate the sublime Lord into their own cultures, to create new national voices, and to dissent from the old order. The volume explores Byron's European reception in its many guises, bringing new evidence, challenging old assumptions, and offering fresh perspectives on the protean impact of Lord Byron on the Continent.

This book consistes of two volumes.

Series Editor: Dr Elinor Shaffer FBA, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London 

Contributors Richard A. Cardwell, University of Nottingham, UK

Joanne Wilkes, University of Auckland, NZ

Peter Cochran, Cambridge, UK

Ernest Giddey, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Edoardo Zuccato, IULM University, Milan

Giovanni Iamartino, University of Milan, Italy

Derek Flitter, University of Birmingham, UK

Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Mihaela Anghelescu Irimia, University of Bucharest, Romania

Frank Erik Pointner, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Achim Geisenhanslüke, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Theo D'haen, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Martin Procházka, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Miroslawa Modrzewska, University of Gdansk, Poland

Orsolya Rakai, Budapest, Hungary

Nina Diakonova, St. Petersburg, Russia

Vitana Kostadinova, Plovdiv University, Bulgaria

Jørgen E. Nielsen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Bjorn Tysdahl, University of Oslo, Norway

Ingrid Elam, Sweden

Anahit Bekaryan, Institute of Fine Arts of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia

Innes Merabishvili, State University of Tbilisi, Georgia

Litsa Trayiannoudi, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Massimiliano Demata, Mansfield College, Oxford, UK