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 mannerthat is sensitive both to the circumstances of their emergence and to their relevance for the twenty-first century. MATTHEW GREEN is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has published widely on Blake and Byron. His research concentrates on examining the ways that works from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries speak to our own epoch. Specifically, his readings of earlier works are undertaken in the context of current critical theory and contemporary fiction. PIYA PAL-LAPINSKI is Associate Professor of English at Bowling Green State University, USA. She has published on the nineteenth century British novel and imperialism. Her research focuses on the interdisciplinary and global contexts of nineteenth century literature and its intersections with contemporary theory. INDICE: 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, Communityand 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' - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-24646-1
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 27/05/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés