Byron''s Don Juan - The Liberal Epic of the Nineteenth Century

"The first full-length study of Byron's masterpiece in over 30 years, this book boldly argues that Don Juan should be recognised as the exemplary epic poem of the nineteenth century. Insightful and convincing, it promises to alter perspectives and invite fresh thinking from both scholars and students of Romanticism"--

List 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.

About the author

Richard Cronin taught for more than forty years at the University of Glasgow. His first monograph was Shelley's Poetic Thoughts (1981), and his most recent are Romantic Victorians: English Literature, 1824-1840 (2002), Paper Pellets: British Literary Culture after Waterloo (2010), Reading Victorian Poetry (2011), and George Meredith: The Life and Writing of an Alteregoist (2019). He co-edited Emma for the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen (2005), Robert Browning for 21st-Century Oxford Authors (2014), and A Companion to Victorian Poetry (2002). This is his ninth monograph.

Summary

The first full-length study of Byron's masterpiece in over thirty years, this book boldly argues that Don Juan should be recognised as the exemplary epic poem of the nineteenth century. Insightful and convincing, it promises to alter perspectives and invite fresh thinking from both scholars and students of Romanticism.

Foreword

Richard Cronin makes the case for why Byron's masterpiece must be recognised as the exemplary epic of the nineteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Cronin, Richard (University of Glasgow) Cronin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2023
• EAN: 9781009366236
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0936623-6
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Epic, 1837–1901 (Victorian period), Literary studies: poetry and poets, c 1820 to c 1829