A DANDY DISMISSION OF THE NATURAL AND PURE IN BYRON’S DON JUAN
A DANDY DISMISSION OF THE NATURAL AND PURE IN BYRON’S DON JUAN
Author(s): Roxana Diana CruceanuSubject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Summary/Abstract: To demonstrate that even a poet of nature like Byron can dismiss the natural, the focus of the present analysis will be on the Haidée episode, where the only creature of the wild in Don Juan will be gradually turned from an inartificial innocent into a made-up harlot by Byron’s dandyism. The defeat of pure Aurora in favour of the more refined and stylized Fitz-Fulke will be also discussed, as well as the matter of nature’s provocations which can bring about the worst in the human being.
Journal: Gender Studies
- Issue Year: 2010
- Issue No: 09
- Page Range: 128-141
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English