Byron's Don Juan

By Bernard G. Beatty

Book Overview

First published in 1985. The legend of Don Juan was entrenched in European literature and other arts long before it came under Byron's hands, yet Byron's treatment of the story is often almost unrecognisably far from its forebears. Beatty indicates how deeply Byron has assimilated his predecessors in order to produce his own work. The sustained argument of this book raises questions of interest not only to students of Byron but of comedy in general, as well as of the place of religious motifs in apparently secularised modes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138648566
• ISBN13: 9781138648562
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"