The Cambridge Companion to Byron

Drummond Bone is Chair of the National Library of Scotland. For many years editor of the Byron Journal, he became co-founding editor of the journal Romanticism. He is the author of Byron (2000) for the Writers and their Work series and currently serves as Vice-President of the Byron Society. Recently Master of Balliol College, Oxford, he is a frequent guest at international Byron conferences.

1. Byron's life and his biographers Paul Douglass; 2. 'My pen is at the bottom of a page' Tom Mole; 3. Byron's politics Malcolm Kelsall; 4. Byron: gender and sexuality Andrew Elfenbein; 5. Heroism and history: Childe Harold I and II and the tales Philip W. Martin; 6. Byron and the Eastern Mediterranean: Childe Harold II and the 'polemic of Ottoman Greece' Nigel leask; 7. 1816–17: Childe Harold III and Manfred Alan Rawes; 8. Byron and the theatre Alan Richardson; 9. Byron's experiments in drama: 1820–1822 Mirka HorovaI; 10. Childe Harold IV, Don Juan and Beppo Drummond Bone; 11. Redeeming levity: Byron's Don Juan Gavin Hopps; 12. The Vision of Judgment and the visions of 'author' Susan J. Wolfson; 13. Byron's bear and other animals Anna Camilleri; 14. Byron's lyric poetry Jerome Mcgann; 15. Byron and the eighteenth century Bernard Beatty; 16. In Byron's Wake Clara Tuite; 17. Byron, postmodernism and intertextuality Jane Stabler; 18. 'Writing grows a habit': Authorship, addiction and the 'Gallanting' poet Ghislaine Mcdayter.