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.