Don Juan , Byron's best poem, is a sensational radical satire. It uses the legend of Don Juan to expose the male fantasies behind Romanticism and nineteenth-century public culture. Critics feared that the poem was a 'manual for vice' and would corrupt society. Should England's best selling author have been censored? This book looks at how Europe's most famous literary celebrity shows his dark side in Don Juan , a canonical long poem and a pop culture masterpiece.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: C. Donelan
EAN: 9781349413690
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 454 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2000-01-06
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GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry and poets
CHARLES DONELAN is an administrator in the Columbian University Senate. He has taught at Tufts University, and Bard College and has held a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at UCLA.
