喬治‧戈登‧拜倫為身懷殘疾的著名詩人，多數人視他為史上第一位現代偶像。然而，於拜倫熱(Byromania)的視覺論述中，拜倫的失能身份，在能者主義偏見的影響下，被建構成與拜倫式魅力間存有斷裂。因此，他的失能身份長期受到忽略或輕視，直到近期失能研究的批判下始獲重視。蓋世的名氣將拜倫暴露在世人的目光下，造就其過分的曝光率，因此，拜倫的身體在粉絲文化中具有超級能見度(hypervisibility)，而他的天生殘疾也在當代能者主義背景下被放大檢視。自成名以來，拜倫的身體展演為廣大觀者所紀錄，許多人採取能者主義表徵系統來扮裝(masquerade)拜倫，失能的負面形象充斥其中。相較於觀看心態(spectatorship)於拜倫熱中顯現的殘疾歧視，拜倫最後的殘篇《畸人變形記》(1824)，推翻了當代讀者對拜倫式理想身軀的刻板想像。此外，此劇作為拜倫的文本式扮裝，突顯了作者在失能意象革新上的變形驅動。本文結合失能研究與傳記批評，將探討拜倫熱下的觀看心態如何扮裝拜倫的失能身體，以及拜倫如何透過《畸人變形記》的逾越性展演來重新詮釋失能經驗。

Seen by many as the first modern celebrity, George Gordon Byron was a world-famous poet with a visible impairment. With ableist prejudice permeating the visual discourse of Byromania, his disability identity, which was established as discontinuous with the Byronic charisma, has been long neglected or devalued until the recent critical effort of Disability Studies. By the time when Byron’s popularity had exposed him to the public eye to the extent of visual excess, the hypervisibility of his physical presence in the fan culture inevitably coincided with the heightened visibility of his birth defect in the contemporary ableist context. Since the Years of Fame, Byron’s body performance had been documented by mass spectators, many of whom adopted the ableist representational system and masqueraded the celebrity poet with the negative stereotyping of disability. In contrast to the disability discrimination scattered over the mass spectatorship of Byromania, Byron’s last dramatic fragment, The Deformed Transformed (1824), could be viewed as a rebellious response to the reading public’s generic expectation for an ideal body imagined to be Byronic. Moreover, it also serves as Byron’s textual masquerade of his transformative impulse to reform disability images. Combining Disability Studies with Biographical Criticism, this essay explores how Byron’s disabled body has been masqueraded by the mass spectatorship of Byromania as well as how the poet reframes disability experiences with the transgressive performance of a deformed body in The Deformed Transformed.

Introduction 1
Chapter One Byron’s Lameness in the Public Eye 20
Chapter Two The Deformed Stigmatized and Transformed 43
Chapter Three Metamorphosis and Body Performance in The Deformed Transformed 54
Chapter Four The Afterlife of Byromania 74
Conclusion 90
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