Byron and the Politics of Freedom and Terror

By Piya Pal-Lapinski

Book Overview

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Byron and the Politics of Freedom and Terror; M.J.A.Green & P.Pal-Lapinski 'That lifeless thing the living fear: ' Freedom, Community and the Gothic Body in The Giaour; M.J.A.Green Sardanapalus, Spectacle, and the Empire State; A.M.Stauffer Byron's Venetian Masque of the French Revolution: Sovereignty, Terror, and the Geopolitics of Marino Faliero and The Two Foscari; J.D.Gonsalves 'Awake to Terror: ' The Impact of Italy on Byron's Depiction of Freedom's Battles; J.Stabler 'Something Not Yet Made Good: ' Byron's Cain, Godwin, and Mary Shelley's Falkner; T.Rajan Manfred's New Promethean Agon; Young-Ok An 'Like the Sheeted Fire from Heaven: ' Transcendence and Resentment in Marino Faliero; I.Dennis 'And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind: ' Byron, Switzerland and the Poetics of Freedom; S.Bainbridge Byron: Consistency, Change and the Greek War; S.Minta 'I have a penchant for black: ' Race and Orphic Dismemberment in Byron's The Deformed Transformed and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace; J.Gross Byronic Terror and Impossible Exchange: From Werner to Baudrillard's The Spirit of Terrorism; P.Pal-Lapinski I

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349319570
• ISBN13: 9781349319572
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"