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Romanticism and Male Fantasy in Byron’s Don Juan

A Marketable Vice

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. Charles Donelan
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Part of the book series: Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories (ROPTCH)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Romanticism and Vice in an Age of Reaction

    • Charles Donelan
    Pages 1-30

  3. Learning to Say Juan

    • Charles Donelan
    Pages 31-67

  4. The Feminization of Male Fantasy: Reimagining Narrative Pleasure in Cantos II and III

    • Charles Donelan
    Pages 68-89

  5. The Fantasy of Superfluous Heads: from the Harem to the Hydra

    • Charles Donelan
    Pages 90-120

  6. Mortal Fantasies: the Politics of Scepticism

    • Charles Donelan
    Pages 121-140

  7. Marriage, Mobility and the Disavowal of Closure

    • Charles Donelan
    Pages 141-160

  8. Don Juan as a Defence of Liberty

    • Charles Donelan
    Pages 161-178

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 179-195
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Don Juan , Byron's best poem, is a sensational radical satire. It uses the legend of Don Juan to expose the male fantasies behind Romanticism and nineteenth-century public culture. Critics feared that the poem was a 'manual for vice' and would corrupt society. Should England's best selling author have been censored? This book looks at how Europe's most famous literary celebrity shows his dark side in Don Juan , a canonical long poem and a pop culture masterpiece.

About the author

CHARLES DONELAN is an administrator in the Columbian University Senate. He has taught at Tufts University, and Bard College and has held a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at UCLA.

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