Product Description: This collection of essays represents twenty-five years of work by a leading critic of Romanticism in general and Byron in particular. It demonstrates McGann's evolution as a scholar, editor, critic, theorist, and historian, and his engagement with the main schools of literary criticism since the advent of structuralism in the 1960s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This call to restore a sense of beauty to our culture will serveas a bellwether of the future of literary studies.Beauty and the Critic brings together well-knownmembers of the literary academy to reassert the importance of "aestheticcriticism" and the treatment of literature as art...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Byron was―to echo Wordsworth―half-perceived and half-created. He would have affirmed Jean Baudrillard's observation that "to seduce is to die to reality and reconstitute oneself as illusion." But among the readers he seduced, in person and in poetry, were women possessed of vivid imaginations who collaborated with him in fashioning his legend...read more