Another chapter concerns the differing ways in which Don Juan has been treated by other artists, from Tirso de Molina, via E. The editor’s introduction describes the enormous literary tradition of which Don Juan forms a vital continuation, from Pulci’s Morgante Maggiore, via Rabelais, Cervantes, and Montaigne, to the novelists Sterne, Smollett and Fielding, all of whom Byron adored. One section is devoted to the poem’s importance in the literatures of Spain and Russia, another to the vast catalogue of Byron’s prose sources (from cannibalism to cookery books), and a final section to the important role played by Mary Shelley in copying most of the poem for the printer. Topics range from the politics of Don Juan, and its treatment of women, to its comic rhymes. Speakers represented in the book include Malcolm Kelsall, Peter Cochran, Diego Saglia and Itsuyo Higashinaka. 1907.Īspects of Byron’s Don Juan is, in part, a proceedings volume from the 2012 conference held by the Newstead Byron Society at Nottingham Trent University. Clearly, what Ayala (much in the Modernist vein) sees as the 'seminal essence' of donjuanismo is its very subversion – Don Juan as conquered, not as conqueror.
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