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Lord Byron's Cain: Twelve essays and a text with variants and annotations

Autor Truman Guy Steffan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 1968
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780292729889
ISBN-10: 029272988X
Pagini: 528
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press

Notă biografică

Truman Guy Steffan (1910–1996) was Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.

Cuprins

  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Part I. Chronicle, Art, and Thought
    • History and Argument
    • Publication
    • Byron’s View of His Play
    • Cain in Chancery
    • Byron’s Dramatic Theory
    • The Devout Stockade
    • The God of This World
    • The Orthodox Family
    • An Apology for Revolt
    • Cain
    • Lucifer
    • Adah
    • The Re-creation of Genesis
    • Images from Paradise and Beyond
    • A Medley of Language
    • Titanic Declamation
    • Inversion
    • Biblical Imitation
    • Colloquialism
    • Contraction
    • Energy
    • A Metrical Heresy
    • The Manuscript and the Text
    • Description
    • Handwriting
    • Capitalization
    • Punctuation
    • Italics
    • Insertions
    • A Printing Custom
    • Characteristics of the Present Text
    • The Content of the Textual Notes and Variants
  • Part II. Text, Variants, and Annotations
    • A Text of the Play with Notes and Variants
    • Preface
    • Act I
    • Act II, Scene i
    • Act II, Scene ii
    • Act III
    • Annotations
    • Preface
    • Act I
    • Act II, Scene i
    • Act II, Scene ii
    • Act III
    • Cain and the Mysteries
    • Some Possible Sources and Parallels for Act II
  • Part III. A Survey of Cain Criticism
    • The Opinions of Byron’s Social and Literary Circle
    • Hunt
    • Blake
    • Goethe
    • The Major Periodicals and Pamphlets (1821–1830)
    • The Literary Gazette
    • The Gentleman’s Magazine
    • The Examiner
    • The Literary Chronicle and Weekly Review
    • The European Magazine and London Review
    • The London Magazine
    • The Monthly Review or Literary Journal
    • The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany
    • Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
    • The Edinburgh Review
    • The Manchester Iris
    • The Monthly Magazine
    • The British Review and London Critical Journal
    • The Eclectic Review
    • The British Critic
    • The Quarterly Review
    • Oxoniensis
    • Harroviensis
    • Philo-Milton
    • Harness
    • Britannicus
    • Uriel
    • Watkins
    • Adams
    • Fabre d’Olivet
    • Wilkinson
    • Styles
    • Brydges
    • Aston
    • The Athenaeum
    • Grant
    • The Victorian Approach to Cain (1831–1899)
    • Noel
    • Gerard
    • Blumenthal
    • Cain in the Twentieth Century
    • Performance
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Descriere

A study of one of Byron's most notable poetic dramas.