{"product_id":"lord-byrons-cain-twelve-essays-and-a-text-with-variants-and-annotations-paperback","title":"Lord Byron's Cain: Twelve essays and a text with variants and annotations - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTruman Guy Steffan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCain\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eCain\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eDon Juan\u003c\/i\u003e. One solemn Frenchman even translated the work in order to supply his countrymen with a text that he could then rewrite and confute.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter the initial controversy, readers began to regard \u003ci\u003eCain\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTruman 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).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first eight essays, which comprise Part I, cover a number of literary topics: Byron's defense of his purposes in \u003ci\u003eCain\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II contains the text of \u003ci\u003eCain\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III provides a history of \u003ci\u003eCain\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTruman Guy Steffan (1910-1996) was Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 528\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.18 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1968\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52702384718131,"sku":"9780292729889","price":97.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/RTVCTnY0YktldXE5SWZybTladit4Zz09.webp?v=1763305190","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/lord-byrons-cain-twelve-essays-and-a-text-with-variants-and-annotations-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}