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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2015  
         
  Article:   BYRON’S DON JUAN IN DISGUISE: NEITHER DANDY NOR LIBERTINE.

Authors:  ROXANA CRUCEANU. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Byron’s Don Juan in Disguise: Neither Dandy nor Libertine. Insisting on the role of transvestitism in the seraglio – the only place where Byron’s Don Juan is comically assertive with a woman – this article pleads for the addition of the protagonist to the list of the heroines in the poem because of his post-erotic manoeuvres alluding to a female’s resources when not so virtuous and avoiding to be caught. My contention is that the main character is neither dandy nor Don Juan since he lives his exotic experience in a state of panic, indecision and confusion. 

Keywords: seduction, hypocrisy, transvestitism, dandyism, libertinism, androgyne, masquerade, identity.
 
         
     
         
         
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