Dino Franco Felluga is associate professor of English at Purdue University. He is author of The Perversity of Poetry (2005) and Critical Theory: The Key Concepts (2015). He is also general editor of the four-volume Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature (2015) and of Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History (branchcollective.org).
Dino Franco Felluga; Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction: Don Juan and the Truth Claims of Genre. Modern Language Quarterly 1 March 2016; 77 (1): 105–120. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-3331613
This essay examines the ways that Lord Byron’s Don Juan engages both the novel’s and the lyric’s claims to truth and virtue, thus setting up the maneuvers that would later be exploited by the Victorian verse novel.
