Walker, David (2003) '"People's ancestors are history's game" Byron's Don Juan and Russian history'. Studies in the Literary Imagination, 36 (2). pp. 149-164. ISSN 0039-3819
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This article analyses selected cantos of Don Juan in relation to Russian politics and history. Russia’s ‘strangeness’ was a topic of fascination and revulsion for many writers and intellectuals in eighteenth-century Britain. Byron’s masterpiece with its picaresque hero is a key participant in this tradition. The article maps British preoccupations with Russia from Defoe to Byron before considering Byron’s poem in a dialogic engagement with Russian politics in the Romantic period. The critical apparatus is Bakhtinian and historicist and engages critically with recent work on the poem.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Romanticism, politics, history, Russia |
| Subjects: | R900 Others in European Languages, Literature and related subjects V300 History by topic |
| Department: | Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities |
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| Depositing User: | EPrint Services |
| Date Deposited: | 29 May 2008 14:42 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Oct 2019 19:22 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/1885 |
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