Vol. 5 Issue 16 – Conference: ’39th International Byron Conference’, London, July 1-6, 2013
ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#16 | May 13, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036
This conference will examine Byron’s engagement with politics in the widest sense: as a poet, as a member of the House of Lords, as a commentator on his time, and latterly as a would-be revolutionary.
Academic sessions might include:
- Byron and the politics of culture
- Political style in Byron’s writing
- Byron and the politics of the ‘Other’
- Byron and the politics of emergent nations (Italy, Greece, the Americas)
- Byron and the House of Lords
- Byron and Napoleon
- Byron as social satirist (more…)