Description:
Don Juan has been annotated afresh, allowing readers to see where Byron left open the choice of words or rhymes, and demonstrating the extraordinary breadth and depth of his literary allusions, topical and cultural references, and socially coded jokes. Text and annotation are supported by extensive bibliographies and a detailed chronology.
Review Quotes:
'It is not every day that book-reviewing revives one's hopes of life after death, but this edition of Byron's masterpiece is a case in point. . . . [Jane Stabler's achievement in the scholarly annotations] is prodigious in its own right. . . . Finally, for Byronists: the editors' achievement here should encourage a scholar somewhere to write that genuinely literary-critical account of Byron's masterpiece we lack. Cultural-materialist approaches can help us see what we are reading in Don Juan; only literary criticism can tell us why we should read it.' - Richard Lansdown, The Wordsworth Circle, volume 56, number 3, summer 2025.