This book is a major reappraisal of Byron's poetry, which despite his enormous influence, the poetry is often of inferior quality and so inconsistent in its attitudes that Byron's poetic seriousness is inevitably called into question.

Mad Women in Romantic Writing constitutes an indispensable contribution to the study of Romantic literature, portraying the myth of the mad woman in a critical new light, exploding a central myth and offering a wealth of important new ...