Book of Donmon Teith

This book examines the relationship between Lord Byron's life and work, and the Regency culture of scandal.

Lord Byron's affairs started in his college times. The book begins with the earliest love stories between the future world-known poet and his girlfriends and fo

Why do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever de

What did Wordsworth wear, and where did he walk? Who was Byron’s new mistress, and how did his marriage fare? Answers—sometimes accurate, sometimes not—we

Byron's Romantic Celebrity offers a new history and theory of modern celebrity. It argues that celebrity is a cultural apparatus that emerged in response to the