The Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lectures, 2000–2015

A Legacy in Byron Studies

Edited by Katherine Kernberger - Contributions by Peter X. Accardo; John Clubbe; Hermione de Almeida; Peter W. Graham; Kay Redfield Jamison; Malcolm Kelsall; Alice Levine; Romulus Linney; Marsha Manns; Jerome J. McGann; John R. Murray; Marios Byron Raizs; Charles E. Robinson and Carl Woodring

This unique collection of lectures honors the pioneering work in Byron studies of Leslie Alexis Marchand, who has had an enduring influence on the appreciation and study of Lord Byron for sixty years. Generations of readers and writers have come to Byron through his biographies and his edition of the poet’s letters and journals. All admirers of Byron respond to the verve, dash, and immediacy of his correspondence, which lies at the heart of Marchand’s biographies and offers us a portrait based on the poet’s views of himself and his times. No one has so powerfully and judiciously allowed Byron’s life to emerge from the testimony of his letters. Many readers, from his contemporaries to our day, have refused to separate the poet from his troubled dark heroes, and see little but strands of autobiography in the poems. But the letters and journals reveal him in a very different light. Leslie Marchand provided these documents for the first time in their unexpurgated and authoritative form. This collection pays tribute to Marchand’s careful scholarship and scrupulous attention to the limits of interpretation.
Marchand’s continued relevance to Byron studies derives in part from the work undertaken by those inspired by his labors as editor and interpreter; many of whom are represented in this collection. Three opening essays bear personal witness to his fervent support for young scholars, his depth of expertise and appeal as a teacher, and his commitment to encouraging others to join him on his Byron pilgrimage. The lectures themselves represent such diverse disciplines as literary theory, psychiatry, publishing history, comparative literature, drama, political history, revolutionary politics in literature and music, literary criticism, textual editing and selection, and literary influence. A chronology and a bibliography provide an overview of his life and scholarship.

University Press Copublishing Division / University of Delaware Press

Pages: 240 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-61149-667-3 • Hardback • September 2017 • $105.00 • (£81.00)

978-1-61149-668-0 • eBook • September 2017 • $99.50 • (£77.00)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary Criticism / Gothic & Romance, Literary Criticism / Poetry

The Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lectures, 2000–2015

A Legacy in Byron Studies

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This unique collection of lectures honors the pioneering work in Byron studies of Leslie Alexis Marchand, who has had an enduring influence on the appreciation and study of Lord Byron for sixty years. Generations of readers and writers have come to Byron through his biographies and his edition of the poet’s letters and journals. All admirers of Byron respond to the verve, dash, and immediacy of his correspondence, which lies at the heart of Marchand’s biographies and offers us a portrait based on the poet’s views of himself and his times. No one has so powerfully and judiciously allowed Byron’s life to emerge from the testimony of his letters. Many readers, from his contemporaries to our day, have refused to separate the poet from his troubled dark heroes, and see little but strands of autobiography in the poems. But the letters and journals reveal him in a very different light. Leslie Marchand provided these documents for the first time in their unexpurgated and authoritative form. This collection pays tribute to Marchand’s careful scholarship and scrupulous attention to the limits of interpretation.
Marchand’s continued relevance to Byron studies derives in part from the work undertaken by those inspired by his labors as editor and interpreter; many of whom are represented in this collection. Three opening essays bear personal witness to his fervent support for young scholars, his depth of expertise and appeal as a teacher, and his commitment to encouraging others to join him on his Byron pilgrimage. The lectures themselves represent such diverse disciplines as literary theory, psychiatry, publishing history, comparative literature, drama, political history, revolutionary politics in literature and music, literary criticism, textual editing and selection, and literary influence. A chronology and a bibliography provide an overview of his life and scholarship.

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University Press Copublishing Division / University of Delaware Press

Pages: 240 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-61149-667-3 • Hardback • September 2017 • $105.00 • (£81.00)

978-1-61149-668-0 • eBook • September 2017 • $99.50 • (£77.00)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary Criticism / Gothic & Romance, Literary Criticism / Poetry

Author

Katherine Kernberger is professor emerita of English at Linfield College.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Katherine Kernberger
“She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron
Leslie Marchand in Florida by Hermione de Almeida
The Ever-Present Leslie Alexis Marchand by Marios Byron Raizis
“The Pilgrim on his Way”: Leslie A. Marchand and the Founding of the Byron Society of America and the Byron Society Collection by Marsha Manns
Chapter 1: Romantic Scholarship and Culture, 1960-2000: A Byronic View
by Jerome J. McGann
Chapter 2: The Moods of Lord Byron by Kay Redfield Jamison
Chapter 3: Lord Byron from the Sidelines by John R. Murray VII
Chapter 4: Three Byronic Heroes: Leslie Marchand, Don Quixote, Don Juan by Carl Woodring
Chapter 5: Byron in My Life by Romulus Linney
Chapter 6: The Delirium of the Brave: Byron and The United Irishmen by Malcolm Kelsall
Chapter 7: Beethoven, Byron, Napoleon, and the Ideals of the French Revolution by John Clubbe
Chapter 8: The Haunting of Don Juan by Peter W. Graham
Chapter 9: Selecting Byron by Alice Levine
Chapter 10: Byron and Hazlitt: Inclining Their Ears Towards Each Other by Charles E. Robinson
Leslie A. Marchand Chronology by Peter X. Accardo
Leslie A. Marchand: A Bibliographical Checklist Compiled by Peter X. Accardo
Index
About the Contributors
In Remembrance