Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on texts
- 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
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on texts
- 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
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Byron, Poetics and History , pp. ixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002