Byron and the Discourses of History

In her study of the relationship between Byrons lifelong interest in history and the development of history as a discipline, Carla Pomarè focuses on how Byrons writings interact with a variety of historiographical texts ranging from monographs to dictionaries. Calling attention to Byrons massive use of paratexts, she discusses how historical discourses supplied epistemological models that shaped his preoccupation with the transmission of historical knowledge and its ideological uses.