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Byron, poetics, and history /

"Jane Stabler offers the first full-scale examination of Byron's poetic form in relation to the historical debates of his time. Responding to recent studies of publishing and audiences in the Romantic period, Stabler argues that Byron's poetics developed in response to contemporary cu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stabler, Jane
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series:Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 52.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; 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.