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Byron and the Politics of Freedom and Terror

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Published
2011
  • Politics and literature
  • History and criticism
  • Criticism and interpretation
  • Political and social views
  • English Political poetry
  • Liberty in literature
  • English Revolutionary poetry
  • History

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.