Romanticism and Male Fantasy in Byron's Don Juan
Subtitle: A Marketable Vice (Romanticism in Perspective)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 10, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780312224912
Subjects: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824; Literary Criticism; Poetry; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Byron, George Gordon Byron; England; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Romanticism; Gothic & Romance; 1788-1824; Baron,; Byron, George Gordon Byron,; Don Juan; Don Juan (Legendary character); Don Juan (Legendary character) in literature; Epic poetry, English; History and criticism; Sexual fantasies in literature
Description: "In July 1819 London was rocked by the appearance of Don Juan, an 'anonymous' poem by Lord Byron, Europe's most famous author. Over the next five years Byron battled with censors and accusations of immorality to get his greatest poem published. The adventures of Don Juan are the basis for this irreverent satire of Regency society and of the male fantasies that structured public culture in the aftermath of the French Revolution.

Charles Donelan looks at Byron's masterpiece as a successful combination of serious literary ambition and outrageous pop culture references."--BOOK JACKET.