Romanticism and Male Fantasy in Byron's "don Juan" : A Marketable Voice (Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories) -- Hardback

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. 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.