Byron and the Politics of Freedom and Terror [electronic resource] /
Pal-Lapinski, Piya.author.
Green, M.editor.
This interdisciplinary collection explores the divergence or convergence of freedom and terror in a range of Byron's works. Challenging the binary opposition of historicism and critical theory, it combines topical debates in a manner that is sensitive both to the circumstances of their emergence and to their relevance for the twenty-first century.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: Byron and the Politics of Freedom and Terror; 1 "That lifeless thing the living fear": Freedom, Community, and the Gothic Body in The Giaour; 2 Sardanapalus, Spectacle, and the Empire State; 3 Byron's Venetian Masque of the French Revolution: Sovereignty, Terror, and the Geopolitics of Marino Falieroand The Two Foscari; 4 "Awake to Terror": The Impact of Italy on Byron's Depiction of Freedom's Battles; 5 "Something Not Yet Made Good": Byron's Cain, Godwin, and Mary Shelley's Falkner; 6 Manfred's New Promethean Agon
7 "Like the Sheeted Fire from Heaven": Transcendence and Resentment in Marino Faliero8 "And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind": Byron, Switzerland, and the Poetics of Freedom; 9 Byron: Consistency, Change, and the Greek War; 10 "I have a penchant for black": Race and Orphic Dismemberment in Byron's The Deformed Transformed and J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace; 11 Byronic Terror and Impossible Exchange: From Werner to Baudrillard's The Spirit of Terrorism; Notes; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This interdisciplinary collection explores the divergence or convergence of freedom and terror in a range of Byron's works. Challenging the binary opposition of historicism and critical theory, it combines topical debates in a manner that is sensitive both to the circumstances of their emergence and to their relevance for the twenty-first century.
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824
Poetry.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
British literature.
Literature, Modern.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Poetry and Poetics.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
British and Irish Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.