Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Lord Byron and "The Truth in Masquerade" Jerome J. McGann 2. Byron, Bakhtin, and the Translation of History Michael Macobski 3. Nothing So Difficult Peter W. Graham 4. "Man fell with apples": the Moral Mechanics of ‘Don Juan’ James Chandler 5. Hitting the Road: Byron, Beckett, and the "Aimless Journey" Bernard J. Gallagher 6. Byron and the Uses of Refamiliarization Donald H. Reiman 7. Byron’s Flirtation with his Muses David V. Erdman 8. Romantic Carnivalesque: Byron’s ‘The Tale if Calil’, ‘Beppo’, and ‘Don Juan’ Suzanne Ferriss 9. Marginal Discourse: the Authority of Gossip in ‘Beppo’ Cheryl Fallon Giuliano 10. Byron and the Women of the Harem Malcolm Kelsall 11. Escape from the Seraglio: Cultural Transvestism in ‘Don Juan’ Alan Richardson 12. A Question of Taste: Keats and Byron Marjorie Levinson 13. Byron and the Pathology of Genius Annette Wheeler Cafarelli 14. Byron and Da Ponte Stuart Curran 15. Byronic Attitudes Leslie A. Marchand; Index