This collection of interdisciplinary essays explores the concept of betrayal as a representational strategy that emerges in texts throughout the Western tradition. Theological, political, ethical and theatrical dimensions of betrayal are examined in a diverse selection of texts from Chariton to Fassbinder.

Kristina Mendicino is Assistant Professor at Brown University and Assistant Editor of . Betiel Wasihun is Montgomery-DAAD Fellow and Tutor at Lincoln College, University of Oxford.

Contents: Joachim Harst: Perversions of Judas. Betrayal in ‘Baroque’ Literature: Borges and Gryphius – Kristina Mendicino: Grasping Spirit: Betrayal in Hegel’s Christology – Eric Dodson-Robinson: ‘By a Brother’s Hand’: Betrayal and Brotherhood in Shakespeare’s and Senecan Tragedy – Horst-Jürgen Gerigk: Notes towards a Definition of Betrayal: Koestler, Hamsun, Pound and the in Nineteenth-Century Literature – Ritchie Robertson: Schiller, Kant, Machiavelli and the Ethics of Betrayal – Betiel Wasihun: Eth(n)ical Betrayal: Kleist’s ‘Die Verlobung in St. Domingo’ and Roth’s – Bernd Blaschke: Betrayals and Their Affects in Wilkomirski’s Fake Holocaust Memoirs – Anne Julia Fett: Aesthetic Manifestations of (Self-)Betrayal in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s – Anna Henke: Sound and Unsound Advice: Unveiling Walter Benjamin’s Umlaut – Rebecca Haubrich: Deceptive Letters: The Structure of Substitution and Exchange in Heinrich von Kleist’s ‘Der Findling’ – Gillian Granville Bentley: An Ancient Othello in Chariton’s – Felisa Baynes-Ross: Ambages and Double Visages: Betrayal in Chaucer’s .