Jane Stabler

Byron, Poetics and History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers the first full-scale examination of Byron's poetic form in relation to historical debates of his time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 595g
• ISBN-13: 9780521812412
• ISBN-10: 0521812410
• Artikelnr.: 23186170

Autorenporträt

Jane Stabler is Lecturer in English at the University of Dundee. She is the author of The Longman Critical Reader on Byron (1998) and Burke to Byron, Barbauld to Baillie 1790-1830 (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Note on texts used
List of abbreviations
Introduction: Byron and the poetics of digression
1. 'Scorching and drenching': discourses of digression among Byron's readers
2. 'Breaches in transition': eighteenth-century digressions and Byron's early verse
3. Erring with Pope: Hints from Horace and the trouble with decency
4. Uncertain blisses: Don Juan, digressive intertextuality and the risks of reception
5. 'The worst of sinning': Don Juan, moral England and feminine caprice
6. 'Between carelessness and trouble': Byron's last digressions
Notes
Bibliography
Index.