"Newstead and I stand or fall together": Memorial Ecology and Multispecies Agency in Byron's Early Poetry

• Main Author: Wintch, Taylore Ann
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2022
• Subjects: Lord Byron; posthumous reception; Newstead Abbey; memorial ecology; literary tourism; multispecies agency; performativity; Arts and Humanities; The Monument; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/9574; https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/context/etd/article/10583/viewcontent/4632857222575820200801_etd.pdf

Scholars studying memory, literary tourism, and Byron all note the cooperation between author and audience at work in memorials--be it in terms of speech and response, hospitality and reception, or memory and forgetting. None, however, address the environment at Newstead as an agentic being involved...