我們清楚可見，拜倫嘲諷了十九世紀初對於史詩般英雄主義的頌揚。《唐璜》一開始就揭露在其所處年代是不可能找到實至名歸的英雄。相反地，在這詩作中他特別描寫數位具備男子氣概的女英雄，其類型包括嚴苛的女才子、積極主動的多情女子、以及耽於肉慾的悍婦。由於拜倫在這詩作中呈現的諷刺口吻，許多評論家誤認其立場是憎惡女性的，尤其是針對行為逾越的女人。事實上，拜倫主要嘲諷的不是女性本質而是針對攝政時期女性作家小說中過度擴充的女英雄主義，以及男性化女權者。簡言之，拜倫檢視其當代女性典型的主要目的是為了找到適合當時社會的女英雄。第一章重點在澄清拜倫於《唐璜》中以女性角色為焦點的用意。第二章討論拜倫針對博學且重德行的母親角色所展現的反女性主義立場。第三章探討追求性愛的女主角在實際生活中遭遇的阻撓和兩難。第四章分析及質疑女性主義所讚賞的性別扮裝。第五章則以拜倫所創適合其當代背景的女英雄特色總結。

It is clear that Byron has deflated the glorification of epic heroism and revealed from the start of Don Juan the impossibility of finding a real hero worthy of the name in his age. Rather, in the poem he takes great care to represent a number of masculinized heroines, ranging from the austere bluestocking to the active romantic lady of sentiment and the sexually voracious virago. Judging from his satirical discourse, some critics regard Byron as an absolute misogynist, proclaiming his abhorrence of the transgressive women. In fact, Byron exercises a comic war not against female nature but against the excessively expanded heroinism in the feminocentric Regency female-authored novels and the mannish feminists in the society. In a word, Byron attempts to censor the available women stereotypes of his age in order to find a suitable heroine for his own society. In Chapter I, I try to clarify Byron's project by focusing on women characters in his Don Juan. In Chapter II, my concern is to illustrate Byron’s anti-feminist stance on the learned and prudishly moralistic mother figures. In Chapter III, I intend to examine the dilemma and obstacles the erotic heroines confront in their love stories. In Chapter IV, the crossdressing strategy which feminists rely on to make a subversive masculinized heroine possible is questioned. In Chapter V, my conclusion, I suggest the sort of ideal heroine Byron has created for his contemporary society.

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