Byron, Poetics and History.
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge Studies in RomanticismPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (271 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780511148415Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon Byron,--Baron,--1788-1824--Knowledge--HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Byron, Poetics and HistoryDDC classification: 821.7 LOC classification: PR4392.H5 S73 2002Online resources: Click to ViewCover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on texts -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Byron and the poetics of digression -- CHAPTER ONE 'Scorching and drenching': discourses of digression among Byron's readers -- CHAPTER TWO 'Breaches in transition': eighteenth-century digressions and Byron's early verse -- CHAPTER THREE Erring with Pope: Hints from Horace and the trouble with decency -- CHAPTER FOUR Uncertain blisses: Don Juan, digressive intertextuality and the risks of reception -- CHAPTER FIVE 'The worst of sinning': Don Juan, moral England and feminine caprice -- CHAPTER SIX 'Between carelessness and trouble': Byron's last digressions -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 'SCORCHING AND DRENCHING': DISCOURSES OF DIGRESSION AMONG BYRON'S READERS -- 2 'BREACAES 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.
This book offers the first full-scale examination of Byron's poetic form in relation to historical debates of his time.
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