Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Lord Byron and "The Truth in Masquerade"--2 Byron, Bakhtin, and the Translation of History -- 3 Nothing So Difficult -- 4 "Man fell with apples": the Moral Mechanics of Don Juan -- 5 Hitting the Road: Byron, Beckett, and the "Aimless Journey"--6 Byron and the Uses of Refamiliarization -- 7 Byron's Flirtation with his Muses -- 8 Romantic Carnivalesque: Byron's The Tale of Calil, Beppo, and Don Juan