Richard Cronin

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Byron's Don Juan: The Liberal Epic of the Nineteenth CenturyHardcover, 31 July 2023

Byron's Don Juan: The Liberal Epic of the Nineteenth Century
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Part of Series
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Print Length
260 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Date Published
31 Jul 2023
ISBN-10
1009366238
ISBN-13
9781009366236

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
Richard Cronin
Book Format:
Hardcover
Date Published:
31 July 2023
Genre:
British
ISBN-10:
1009366238
ISBN-13:
9781009366236
Language:
English
Location:
Cambridge
Pages:
260

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