Self, Text, and Romantic Irony: The Example of Byron

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Frederick Garber takes up in detail several problems of the self broached in his previous book, The Autonomy of the Self from Richardson to Huysmans (Princeton, 1982). Using patterns in Byron's canon as models, he focuses on the relations of self-making and text-making as a central Romantic issue. For Byron and many of his contemporaries, putting a

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"Garber assimilates Byron into the world of contemporary sensibility and thinking. He is one of the best stylists among American literary scholars and critics, and he is the first to create for us a Byron who is deeply involved in some of the most momentous and decisive questions of our civilization. The book will become a basic resource for the teaching of Byron and will be of great interest to scholars in the general humanities and criticism."Virgil P. Nemoianu, Catholic University of America