Byron's Don Juan
The Liberal Epic of the Nineteenth Century
Part of Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Author: Richard Cronin, University of Glasgow
- Date Published: June 2023
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009366236
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In this first full-length study of Byron's masterpiece in over thirty years, Richard Cronin boldly presents Don Juan as the epic poem of its age. Impressively illuminating the whole literary nineteenth century through a single work, he asks what kind of epic can be said to represent an era more readily defined by newspapers and magazines than by competitors such as Wordsworth's Excursion or Southey's Joan of Arc arose. Delving into questions of form and choice of hero, he also explores the controversies that informed the poem's reception, its contemporary interactions, and its influence on later nineteenth-century literature. Don Juan, he argues, is the epic poem demanded by an age of cant and dissembling, when people's feelings and the world they lived in had become disconnected. In it, he finds a powerful defence of liberal thinking at a time when that kind of thinking was under threat.
Read more- The first full-length study of Byron's masterpiece for more than 30 years, introducing what is arguably Byron's greatest poem to a new generation of readers
- Places Byron's poem in relation to the work of his contemporaries, contemporary responses to it, and to the Victorian novelists who succeeded him
- Defends Byron's belief that it is the defining characteristic of the liberal thinker to accept the right of others to differ from him
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'The outcome of a lifelong engagement with Byron's poetry, Richard Cronin has written perhaps the best critical appraisal of 'Don Juan' that one could wish for.' Philip Shaw, The Charles and Mary Lamb Journal
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- Date Published: June 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009366236
- length: 260 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 158 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.52kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. My poem's epic
2. I want a hero
3. Especially upon a printed page
4. The gate of life and death
5. Allusions private and inglorious
6. Taking another tack
7. Mine irregularity of chime
8. This is a liberal age.
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