Byron and the Poetics of Adversity McGann Hardback Cambridge University Press

Byron and the Poetics of Adversity\n\nA landmark study that unearths Byron's profound, enduring critique of the failures of language and the contradictions of his age.\n\nJerome McGann (Author)\n\n9781009232951, Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 15 December 2022\n\n226 pages\n19.4 x 12.9 x 1.8 cm, 0.3 kg\n\n'McGann's writing style is accessible, direct, modern - and provides a doubly pointed contrast to the didactic denigration of Byron in the early twentieth-century readings he challenges. I also want to take a moment to consider the physical form of this book because the engaging accessibility of McGann's authorial voice is reflected in the size of Poetics of Adversity which is, itself, a 'little book.' Unusually small for a scholarly monograph, it is easy to carry in a pocket, easy to read one-handed, and its physical form not only recalls Byron's tongue-in-cheek description of 'Don Juan' (itself a parodical jibe at Robert Southey's smug satisfaction with Carmen Nu]