Lord Byron and the Quest for Affirmation
Westmoreland, Mark William
With the rise of New Disability Studies, literary scholars are continually reevaluating works by disabled writers such as Lord Byron, who possessed a club-foot. Some scholars, in addition to reevaluating Byron's work, emphasize the legacy that rests upon both his notorious lifestyle and his extraordinary ability as a prolific writer. Unfortunately, his lifestyle, and not his writing, typically becomes the primary focus of too many critics who ...