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.

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YOUNG-OK AN Associate Professor of English, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, USA SIMON BAINBRIDGE Professor of Romantic Studies, Lancaster University, UK IAN DENNIS Associate Professor in Romantics, University of Ottawa, Canada JOSHUA DAVID GONSALVES Assistant Professor of English, American University of Beirut, Lebanon JONATHAN GROSS Director of the Humanities Centre and Professor of English, DePaul University, USA STEPHEN MINTA Senior Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature, University of York, UK TILOTTAMA RAJAN Distinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair in English and Theory, University of Western Ontario, Canada JANE STABLER Reader in Romantic Literature, School of English, University of St Andrews, UK ANDREW M. STAUFFER Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia, USA

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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