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  • Editorial
  • Alan Rawes

This is my final issue as the editor of The Byron Journal. Thank you to everyone involved in the journal – the Editorial Board, the Advisory Editors, all at Liverpool University Press, the many contributors I have worked with and, most importantly, the readers – for making my 7-year tenure such a rich, rewarding and pleasurable experience. I wish Dr Jonathon Shears, the incoming editor, every success in the coming years. I know he will make a fine editor.

The present issue offers the journal’s usual snapshot of the variety, vitality and internationalism of Byron Studies today. We kick off with an essay on Byronic hangovers. This is followed by a piece on incest in Byron’s work. An essay on Byron and Catholicism comes next, then one that speculates on the possibility of a lost section of Don Juan. The final essay tackles the threat of ‘sublime entombment’ that looms over Manfred, and the relationship between this and the Wordsworthian sublime.

The Reviews section follows, which includes reviews on a number of important new books on Byron. Then we have reports from the Byron Society, the Australian Byron Society, the Georgian Byron Society, the Irish Byron Society and the Scottish Byron Society, on their activities during 2011.

The cover picture shows the Earl of Lytton reading Byron’s Frame-workers Bill speech to The Byron Society on 27 February 2012 at the House of Lords (see The Byron Society’s report on pages 87–89) – where, of course, Byron first gave the speech exactly 200 years before. 2012 begins a run of very special anniversaries for Byronists (a fact celebrated by The Byron Society’s September symposium on the theme of ‘Byron and 1812’). I look forward to enjoying as many as possible of these anniversaries with as many as possible of you. In the meantime, I very much hope you enjoy the following pages. [End Page v]

Alan Rawes
Editor
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