Byron and the Politics of Freedom and Terror

1. Introduction: Byron and the Politics of Freedom and Terror
Matthew J. A. Green, Piya Pal-Lapinski

2. “That lifeless thing the living fear”: Freedom, Community, and the Gothic Body in The Giaour
Matthew J. A. Green

3. Sardanapalus, Spectacle, and the Empire State
Andrew M. Stauffer

4. Byron’s Venetian Masque of the French Revolution: Sovereignty, Terror, and the Geopolitics of Marino Faliero and The Two Foscari
Joshua David Gonsalves

5. “Awake to Terror”: The Impact of Italy on Byron’s Depiction of Freedom’s Battles
Jane Stabler

6. “Something Not Yet Made Good”: Byron’s Cain, Godwin, and Mary Shelley’s Falkner
Tilottama Rajan

7. Manfred’s New Promethean Agon
Young-ok An

8. “Like the Sheeted Fire from Heaven”: Transcendence and Resentment in Marino Faliero
Ian Dennis

9. “And Freedom’s fame finds wings on every wind”: Byron, Switzerland, and the Poetics of Freedom
Simon Bainbridge

10. Byron: Consistency, Change, and the Greek War
Stephen Minta

11. “I have a penchant for black”: Race and Orphic Dismemberment in Byron’s The Deformed Transformed and J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
Jonathan Gross

12. Byronic Terror and Impossible Exchange: From Werner to Baudrillard’s The Spirit of Terrorism
Piya Pal-Lapinski

Avainsanat: Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature