Cain
Author | : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1822 |
Genre | : English drama |
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Author | : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1822 |
Genre | : English drama |
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Author | : Truman Guy Steffan |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2014-11-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1477305114 |
Cain has been ranked as one of the two best dramatic poems written in England in the nineteenth century. Because of its religious heterodoxy, which veiled a political iconoclasm, and also because of Byron’s notoriety, Cain stirred up a storm among Tories and clergymen “from Kentish town to Pisa.” From 1821 to 1830 more was printed about its eighteen hundred alarming lines than about the twenty thousand of Don Juan. One solemn Frenchman even translated the work in order to supply his countrymen with a text that he could then rewrite and confute. After the initial controversy, readers began to regard Cain not merely as revolutionary propaganda but as a fictional portrait of common youthful experience: a sequence of aspiration, discontent, uncertainty, confusion, misunderstood isolation, fear, frustration, anger, and finally a rash, inevitable, but futile revolt that led to a future of hopeless regret. Truman Guy Steffan here presents a text, arrived at by collation of the first and several later editions with the original manuscript (presently in the Stark Collection of the Miriam Lutcher Stark Library at the Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin). The first eight essays, which comprise Part I, cover a number of literary topics: Byron’s defense of his purposes in Cain and the relevance of his dramatic theory to the poem; the characterization that is an ideological confrontation, a revelation of personal conflict, as well as a rendering of individuals who have an existence independent of the author; the principles that controlled Byron’s absorption and expansion of biblical materials; the integration of the imagery with the dramatic substance; the incongruities of the language; the metrical heterodoxy; and a description of the manuscript and of Byron’s insertions. Part II contains the text of Cain, accompanied by notes on the variants, the manuscript cancellations and additions, certain linguistic details, and the scansion of some unusual verses. Then follow annotations on allusions, sources, and analogues, and on a few passages of the play that have elicited unusual conflict over interpretation. Part III provides a history of Cain criticism, from the opinions of Byron’s social and literary circle and of the major periodicals and pamphlets to the more complicated contribution of the twentieth century. This important work stands not only as a valuable addition to Byron scholarship but also as an illuminating record of the changing critical and cultural attitudes from the early nineteenth century to the 1960s. Steffan has done a remarkable job in bringing together and synthesizing an enormous body of material.
Author | : Adolph Holtermann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1869 |
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Author | : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1834 |
Release | : 1964 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Adolph Holtermann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1869 |
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Author | : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1822 |
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Author | : Harding Grant |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2016-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781371434014 |
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Author | : George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 1830 |
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Author | : Harding Grant |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2016-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781371434038 |
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Author | : George Gordon Byron Byron |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2016-04-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781354387115 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.