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Publications



Monograph

Byron's Romantic Celebrity: Industrial Culture and the Hermeneutic of Intimacy Byron's Romantic Celebrity: Industrial Culture and the Hermeneutic of Intimacy
Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2007



Edited Collection

Romanticism and Celebrity Culture Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750-1850
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Contributors: Tom Mole, Jason Goldsmith, David Higgins, Richard Salmon, Benjamin Walton, Peter Briggs, Heather McPherson, Clara Tuite, Linda Zionkowski, Cheryl Wanko, Corin Throsby, Judith Pascoe



Edition

Byron's Romantic Celebrity: Industrial Culture and the Hermeneutic of Intimacy Volume editor for:
Blackwood's Magazine 1817-1825: Selections from Maga's Infancy
6 vols, gen. ed. Nicholas Mason
London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006



Articles

International Journal of Cultural Studies

'Lord Byron and the End of Fame', International Journal of Cultural Studies, 11 (2008), 343-361.

Nineteenth-Century Contexts

'Impresarios of Byron's Afterlife', Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 29.1 (2007), 17-34.

Romanticism

'"Nourished by that Abstinence": Consumption and Control in The Corsair', Romanticism 12.1 (2006), 26-34.
"Of related interest is Tom Mole's excellent '"Nourished by that Abstinence": Consumption and Control in The Corsair', in which Mole considers Byron's poetic representations of eating in terms of his response to the 'apparatus' of celebrity culture."
David Stewart, YWES (2008).
M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture

'Hypertrophic Celebrity', M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, 7.4 (2004).

The Keats-Shelley Journal

'Byron's "An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill": The Embarrassment of Industrial Culture', The Keats-Shelley Journal 52 (2003), 97-115.
"A well-written, witty, and learned piece that […] raises (and in part answers) important questions about Byron's political efficacy as well as the political implications of print culture and technology in the Romantic period."
-Beth Lau, Recommended Reading, Blackwell Literature Compass

"A thoughtful treatment of Byron's Luddite texts in relation to the technology of publishing."
-Steven E. Jones, 'Digital Romanticism in the Age of Neo-Luddism', Romanticism on the Net 41-42 (2006).
Romanticism

'The Handling of Hebrew Melodies', Romanticism 8.1 (2002), 18-33.

The Byron Journal

'Byron, Westall, Asperne, Blood: An Early Engraved Portrait', The Byron Journal, 29 (2001), 98-102.




Book Chapters

Romanticism and Celebrity Culture

'Mary Robinson's Conflicted Celebrity'
In Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750-1850
Ed. by Tom Mole
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Liberty and Poetic Licence: New Essays on Byron

'The Bride of Abydos: The Regime of Visibility and the Possibility of Resistance'
In Liberty and Poetic Licence: New Essays on Byron
Ed. by Bernard Beatty, Tony Howe and Charles E. Robinson
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008
"Tom Mole [...] writes incisively about the politics of visibility in The Bride of Abydos, using Judith Butler to consider the complex matrix of real and subversive freedom in the poem's visualisations: Mole's past writings have proven him an illuminating and sensitive scholar, and this article reconfirms those conclusions"
-Emily A. Bernhard Jackson, The Byron Journal, 37.1 (2009), 66-68.

"Mole's essay begins to rectify [...] the unfair neglect of [...] The Bride of Abydos"
-Anna Camilleri, BARS Bulletin and Review, 36 (2010), 33-35.
Byron: Heritage and Legacy

'The Handling of Hebrew Melodies' (reprinted from Byron's Romantic Celebrity)
In Byron: Heritage and Legacy
Ed. by Cheryl A. Wilson
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
Byron: The Image of the Poet

'Ways of Seeing Byron'
In Byron: The Image of the Poet
Ed. by Christine Kenyon Jones
Newark DL: Associated University Presses, 2008
"Tom Mole adds [...] a brilliant reading of some lesser known illustrations, caricatures and prints"
-Philip Shaw, Keats-Shelley Review
Byron: A Poet for All Seasons 'Narrative Desire and the Body in The Giaour'
In Byron: A Poet for All Seasons
Ed. by M. B. Raizis
Messolonghi: Messolonghi Byron Society, 2000