Byron and the politics of freedom and terror [Elektronisk resurs] / Edited by Matthew J.A. Green, Piya Pal-Lapinski.

• 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 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. -- One can no longer speak of rights and freedoms without encountering the spectre of the 'terrorist', or without making allowances for a political existence which is excluded and/or excludes itself from the rule of law. Equally, however, the revolutionary conflicts of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries have bequeathed a legacy that raises questions of responsibility, freedom and democracy that are central to political intervention and critique. Byron's texts, which themselves engage with the legacy of the Enlightenment as well as with the promise and the terror of the French Revolution, offer scholars insight into his problematic representations of freedom, his personal and financial support of Italian and Greek independence movements, his complicated response to Napoleon and his interest in Gothic literature (the literature of terror), all of which are highly topical within our own historical moment. 

Ämnesord

Politics and literature.  (LCSH)

Liberty in literature.  (LCSH)

Politics and literature  -- History -- 19th century -- Great Britain. (LCSH)

Revolutionary poetry, English  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Political poetry, English  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Literature.  (eflch)

Personnamn

Byron, George Gordon Byron, 1788-1824. -- Criticism and interpretation.

Byron, George Gordon Byron, 1788-1824. -- Political and social views.

Klassifikation

LIT (ämneskategori)

821.7 (DDC)