A Life in Ten Letters Byron

Byron A Life in Ten Letters

Andrew Stauffer

9781009200165 Hardback

£25.00 | $29.95 USD | $33.95 CAD

At a glance

• Gripping: Lord Byron is arguably the most perennially alluring of all the Romantic poets

• Satisfying: a book that gives its readers a rich sense of Byron’s whole life, and his continuing importance, studded as it is with anecdotes and quotations, all in a fresh and compact form

• Immersive: affords to its readers the singular pleasure of looking over the poet’s shoulder and of imagining their own way into his life as one of his correspondents

• Ground-breaking: draws on the most recent research to reveal Byron as a modern figure with great relevance to our era, while also emphasizing the historical specifics of his own

• Distinguished: the author is one of the foremost Byron scholars writing in English

• Timely: released to coincide with the bicentennial of Byron’s death

Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame – and scandal – before finding a kind of redemption in the Greek Revolution. He also left behind the vast trove of thrilling letters (to friends, relatives, lovers, and more) that form the core of this remarkable biography. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Byron’s death, and adopting a fresh approach, it explores his life and work through some of his best, most resonant correspondence. Each chapter opens with Byron’s own voice—as if we are personally receiving a fresh letter from the iconic poet—followed by a vivid account of the emotions and experiences that the missive touches upon. This gripping volume traces the meteoric trajectory of a poet whose brilliance shook the world and whose legacy continues to shape art and culture to this day.

Andrew Stauffer is Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the President of the Byron Society of America. He is the author of Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library (2020), which was the inaugural recipient of the Marilyn Gaull Book Award of the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association in 2021 He is the co-editor of Lord Byron: Selected Writings (2023).

Born in Blood Violence and the Making of America

Scott Gac

Born in Blood investigates one of history’s most violent undertakings: The United States of America. People the world over consider violence in the United States as measurably different than that which troubles the rest of the globe, citing gun culture, the American West, Hollywood, the death penalty, economic inequality, rampant individualism, and more. This compelling examination of American violence explains a political culture of violence from the American Revolution to the Gilded Age, illustrating how physical force, often centered on racial hierarchy, sustained the central tenets of American liberal government. This book offers an important story of nationhood, told through the experiences and choices of civilians, Native Americans, politicians, soldiers, and the enslaved, providing historical context for understanding how violence has shaped the United States from its inception.

Scott Gac is Director of American Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies and History at Trinity College and the author of Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reform

Scott Gac

Born in Blood

Violence and the Making of America

UK publication January 2024

US publication January 2024

9781316511886 Hardback

£25.00 | $29.95 USD | $33.95 CAD

At a glance

• Presents American violence as the product of political and social structure

• Provides historical context for understanding the recent spate of police killings and the violence and White self-determination behind antigovernment action in America

• Helps readers understand how many forms of violence in the American past persist to this day

• Centers the experiences and choices of oppressed civilian populations throughout American history

UK publication May 2023

US publication July 2023

475 pages

9781108971454 Paperback

£16.99 | $19.95 USD | $NA CAD

At a glance

• Debunks our fantasies about Regency England and presents a compelling, gritty alternative

• Uses exceptionally rich source material to present sympathetic portraits of the would-be terrorists

• Gives a voice to the impoverished, disenfranchised, and cruelly exploited London underclass