Introduction

Byron and the politics of freedom and terror

Matthew A. Green, Piya Pal-Lapinski

1-14

"That lifeless thing the living fear"

freedom, community, and the gothic body in the Giaour

Matthew A. Green

15-32

Sardanapalus, spectacle, and the empire state

Andrew M. Stauffer

33-46

Byron's venetian masque of the French revolution

sovereignty, terror, and the geopolitics of Marino Faliero and the two Foscari

Joshua D. Gonsalves

47-63

"Awake to terror"

the impact of Italy on Byron's depiction of freedom's battles

Jane Stabler

64-83

"Something not yet made good"

Byron's Cain, Godwin, and Mary Shelley's Falkner

Tilottama Rajan

84-101

Manfred's new promethean agon

Young-ok An

102-117

"Like the sheeted fire from heaven"

transcendence and resentment in Marino Faliero

Ian Dennis

118-135

"And freedom's fame finds wings on every wind"

Byron, Switzerland, and the poetics of freedom

Simon Bainbridge

136-151

Byron

consistency, change, and the Greek war

Stephen Minta

152-166

"I have a penchant for black"

race and orphic dismemberment in Byron's The deformed transformed and J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace

Jonathan Gross

167-181

Byronic terror and impossible exchange

from Werner to Baudrillard's the spirit of terrorism

Piya Pal-Lapinski

182-195