'"People's ancestors are history's game" Byron's Don Juan and Russian history'

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

Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)

Abstract

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
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
Related URLs:
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

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item

Downloads

Downloads per month over past year

View more statistics