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Abstract: 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

Abstract: Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Race, Gender, and the Romantic Construction of English National identity 1. The Racial Sublime, by Laura Doyle 2. Domesticating Fictions and Nationalizing Women: Edmund Burke, Property, and the Reproduction of Englishness, by Deidre Lynch 3. Mothering and National identity in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, by Rajani Sudan Part II. Imperial Fictions: Romantic Others, Other Romantics 4. Mumbo Jumbo: Mungo park and the Rhetoric of Romantic Africa, by Ashton Nichols 5. Hannah Kilham: Gender, the Gambia, and the Politics of Language, by Moira Ferguson 6. Feminizing the Feminine: Early Women Writers on India, by Balachandra Rajan 7. The Necessary Orientalist? The Giaour and Nineteenth-Century Imperialist Misogyny, by Joseph Lew 8. Versions of the East: Byron, Shelley, and the Orient, by Saree Makdisi 9. HemansOs ORed IndiansO: Reading Stereotypes, by Nancy Moore Goslee Part III> Resituating Romanticism 10. Epic Ambivalence: Imperial Politics and Romantic Deflection in WilliamsO Peru and LandorOs Gebir, by Alan Richardson 11. Dark Characters, Native Grounds: WordsworthOs Imagination of Imperialism, by Alison Hickey 12. OAm I Not a Woman, and a aSister?O: Slavery, Romanticism, and Gender, by Anne K. Mellor 13. Tradition and The Interesting Narrative: Capitalism, Abolition, and the Romantic Individual, by Sonia Hofkosh Index

Abstract: This study approaches Byron's Turkish Tales from within the field of Oriental perspective, contributing to the existing body of knowledge on the tradition of Orientalism in English literature. Byron's intimate grasp of the life of the Orient and his remarkable cross-cultural empathy and insights are pointed out in this in-depth study of his Oriental sources, diction, similes and characters. Moreover, the comparison of Byron's Orientalism with that of his contemporaries, such as Robert Southey and Thomas Moore, illustrates further why Byron stands out in his treatment of the Orient. The five appendices provide a valuable repository of data and more general information on the subject.