| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages) |
| Contents |
"That lifeless thing the living fear" : freedom, community, and the Gothic body in The Giaour / Matthew J.A. Green -- Sardanapalus, spectacle, and the empire state / Andrew M. Stauffer -- Bryon's Venetian masque of the French Revolution : sovereignty, terror, and the geopolitics of Marino Faliero and The Two Foscari / Joshua David Gonsalves -- "Awake to terror" : the impact of Italy on Byron's depiction of freedom's battles / Jane Stabler -- "Something not yet made good" : Byron's Cain, Godwin and Marry Shelley's Falkner / Tilottama Rajan -- Manfred's new Promethean agon / Young-ok An -- "Like the sheeted fire from heaven" : transcendence and resentment in Marino Faliero / Ian Dennis -- "And freedom's fame finds wings on every wind" : Byron, Switzerland, and the poetics of freedom / Simon Bainbridge -- Byron : consistency, change, and the Greek War / Stephen Minta -- "I have a penchant for black" : race and orphic dismemberment in Byron's The Deformed Transformed and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace / Jonathan Gross -- Byronic terror and impossible exchange : from Werner to Baudrillard's The Spirit of Terrorism / Piya Pal-Lapinski |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Political and social views
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| SUBJECT |
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 fast |
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Revolutionary poetry, English -- History and criticism
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Political poetry, English -- History and criticism
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Politics and literature.
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Liberty in literature.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Liberty in literature
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Political and social views
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Political poetry, English
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Politics and literature
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Revolutionary poetry, English
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Green, Matthew J. A., 1975-
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Pal-Lapinski, Piya
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| ISBN |
9780230306608 |
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0230306608 |
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