Manfred Followup: Clips from the Cultural Connections Panel

Just under two months ago, a collection of global scholars gathered in New York City to perform, interrogate, discuss, and celebrate Lord Byron's Manfred. We have been sharing interviews with some of the participants over the past few weeks; today, we want to share a series of video clips from one of the symposium's panels. The Manfred: Cultural Connections panel featured four speakers: Peter Manning (Stony Brook U), Alan Richardson (Boston College), Andrew Stauffer (U Virginia), and Clara Tuite (U Melbourne). Together, the panelists explored Manfred's intertextuality and ties to important Romantic moments.  Collected below are short clips from each of the speaker's papers. If you follow our social media, you will recognize that these have been previously distributed. We have collected them here to highlight how the papers speak to one another. Manning begins by unpacking what about Manfred has fascinated him, and finds connections to Goethe. Richardson follows by exploring the "orientalist flavours" that run through Manfred. Stauffer returns to intertextuality by drawing on the parallels between Shelley's Prometheus Unbound and Manfred, which he titles the "dark twin". Finally, Tuite speaks of Manfred as a representation of celebrity revenge tragedy.  To watch the full papers, visit here. 

Peter Manning (Stony Brook U), ‘My pang shall find a voice’: Manfred and The Sorrows of Young Werther

Alan Richardson (Boston College), Alpine Orientalism in Manfred

Andrew Stauffer (U Virginia), Dark Prometheus: Manfred and the Last Infirmity of Evil

Clara Tuite (U Melbourne), Redeemed from the worm: Byron’s Celebrity Revenge Tragedy