Byron's Dialectic: Skepticism and the Critique of CultureThis book includes commentaries on the major poems Manfred, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and Don Juan, with substantial consideration of Byron's prose and with one of the most comprehensive studies of Cain ever written. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 13 |
Culture Convention and Indeterminacy | 34 |
Cain and the Critique of Culture | 100 |
Notes | 152 |
Bibliography | 174 |
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