1st Edition
The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori, including Related Correspondence and Other Documents
Edited By L. Adam Mekler
Copyright 2026
228 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
228 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book offers the first modern, critical edition of the diary of John William Polidori (1795–1821). Polidori’s diary was first published in 1911 by his nephew William Michael Rossetti, based on the expurgated version of the diary created by Polidori’s sister Charlotte.
Polidori was the travelling physician for Lord Byron during the spring and summer of 1816, when Byron left England in the... Read more
Preface
Notes on the Text
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Introduction
The Diary
Book One
Book Two
Appendix One: Introduction to the 1911 edition by William Michael Rossetti
Appendix Two: Related Correspondence
Appendix Three: The Vampyre Controversy
Bibliography
Index
Biography
L. Adam Mekler is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Language Arts at Morgan State University, USA. His research focuses primarily on Mary Shelley and the younger British Romantics. He is the co-editor of Mary Shelley: Her Circle and her Contemporaries (with Lucy Morrison; 2010).
