We are pleased to announce that BSA member Michael Steier has won this year’s Elma Dangerfield Prize from the IABS for his book, Byron, Hunt, and the Politics of Engagement, published in the Routledge Studies in Romanticism series. Steir wrote his dissertation with Charles Robinson at the University of Delaware, and the book is based on that project.
The award committee calls Steier’s book “an assured performance…a hugely enjoyable book…This monograph will become the reference book on the Hunt/Byron connection, as well as a very useful resource on Byron generally, and on a large cast of figures, coteries, and literary-cultural phenomena from the 1810s to the 1820s.”
Quoting the Routledge description:
“Byron, Hunt, and the Politics of Literary Engagement is the first full-length study of the friendship and literary relationship of two of the most important second-generation Romantic authors. Challenging long-held critical attitudes, this study shows that Byron and Hunt engaged in a creative and meaningful dialogue at each major stage in their careers, from their earliest published volumes of juvenile poetry and verse satire to their most celebrated contributions to Romantic literature: The Story of Rimini and Don Juan. Drawing upon newly recovered letters and unpublished manuscript material, this bookilluminates the surprisingly durable and artistically significant friendship of Lord Byron and Leigh Hunt.”
Congratulations to Dr. Steier on this fine achievement!
Previous winners of the Elma Dangerfield Prize include Roderick Beaton, Peter Cochran, Paul Douglass, Paul Elledge, Caroline Franklin, Peter Graham, Malcom Kelsall, Ghislaine McDayter, Tom Mole, Diego Saglia, Miranda Seymour, Jonathon Shears, Clara Tuite, and Sarah Wootton.
https://www.internationalassociationofbyronsocieties.org/index.php/news