Jonathon Shears' Outputs (13)

Byron's Lyric Poetry (2024)
Book Chapter
Shears, J. (2024). Byron's Lyric Poetry. In The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron (48-63). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198808800.013.39

This chapter proposes that Byron’s lyrics are best understood not as part of the tradition of the imaginative, introspective Romantic lyric, but as an exploration of human relations revealed through close attention to subtle shifts in voice, tone, an... Read More about Byron's Lyric Poetry.

Reading Byron's Body and Mind (2024)
Book Chapter
Shears, J. (2024). Reading Byron's Body and Mind. In The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron (596-611). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198808800.013.40

This chapter explores the intersections between body and mind in Byron’s work and self-presentation. These can be viewed through five main lenses: the Galenic language of the four humours; discourses of passions and affections; new understanding of t... Read More about Reading Byron's Body and Mind.

When the Clock Takes Over Hangovers in twentieth-century British and American fiction and poetry (2022)
Book Chapter
Shears, J. (2022). When the Clock Takes Over Hangovers in twentieth-century British and American fiction and poetry. In Routledge Handbook of Intoxicants and Intoxication

Not for Envy: Paradise Lost and the Inward Turn in Byron’s Cain (2021)
Book Chapter
Shears, J. (2021). Not for Envy: Paradise Lost and the Inward Turn in Byron’s Cain. . Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108903790.003

Self and Society (2021)
Book Chapter
Shears, J. (2021). Self and Society. . (1). Bloomsbury Publishing

I Ask His Pardon for a Postscript: Byron's Epistolary Afterthoughts (2018)
Book Chapter
Shears. (2018). I Ask His Pardon for a Postscript: Byron's Epistolary Afterthoughts. In Byron and Marginality (291 - 307)

It is arguable that Byron’s letters and journals have never really been on the fringes or margins of our responses to the poet. Those published, albeit in censored form, in Thomas Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron as early as 1830 made an im... Read More about I Ask His Pardon for a Postscript: Byron's Epistolary Afterthoughts.

Bunyan and the Romantics (2018)
Book Chapter
Shears, J. (2018). Bunyan and the Romantics.

Byron's Hypochondria (2016)
Book Chapter
Shears, J. (2016). Byron's Hypochondria. In Byron's Temperament: Essays in Body and Mind. Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Wordsworth’s English Poets (2015)
Book Chapter
Shears, J. (2015). Wordsworth’s English Poets. In R. Gravil, & D. Robinson (Eds.), Oxford Handbooks Online (449-466). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199662128.013.0028

‘The Ideas in Thing Town: Villette, Art and Moveable Objects’ (2013)
Book Chapter
Shears, J., & Harrison, J. (2013). ‘The Ideas in Thing Town: Villette, Art and Moveable Objects’.

Literary Bric-à-Brac Introducing Things (2013)
Book Chapter
Shears, J., & Harrison, J. (2013). Literary Bric-à-Brac Introducing Things.

Literary Bric-à-Brac (2013)
Book Chapter
Shears, J., & Harrison, J. (2016). Literary Bric-à-Brac. In Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians. (1). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315592565-1

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. Critical attention has long been held by, and directed us to scrutinise, the significance of the material substance of nineteenth-century litera... Read More about Literary Bric-à-Brac.

Digesting Don Juan Cantos I and II (2013)
Book Chapter
Shears, J. (2013). Digesting Don Juan Cantos I and II. . Cambridge Scholars Publishing