Description: Byron's Ghosts : The Spectral, The Spiritual and The Supernatural, Hardcover by Hopps, Gavin (EDT), ISBN 1846319706, ISBN-13 9781846319709, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Byron is rarely thought of as a spiritual writer. However, as this bold new collection shows, this is the result of an impoverished notion of the 'spiritual' and a reflection of biased priorities in Romantic studies. Reflecting on the poet's claim that 'immaterialism's a serious matter', this interdisciplinary collection of essays, from British and American scholars, calls into question the prevailing 'materialist' consensus, and offers a fresh and theoretically inflected reading of Byron's poetry. Byron's Ghosts is the first book-length examination of spectrality in Byron's work. It is on the one hand concerned with what Mary Shelley in her essay 'On Ghosts' refers to as 'the true old-fashioned, foretelling, flitting, gliding ghost', though it is also a postmodern response to the 'spectral turn' in critical theory, which brings into view a range of phantom effects and 'non-Gothic' spectres. Focusing attention on these diverse modalities of the ghostly, the specially assembled essays complicate the popular image of Byron as a sceptical or 'anti-Romantic' poet and reveal a great deal about his work that could not be uncovered in any other way" --
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Book Title: Byron's Ghosts : The Spectral, The Spiritual and The Supernatural
Number of Pages: 246 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Byron's Ghosts : the Spectral, the Spiritual and the Supernatural
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Spiritualism, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 12.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.4 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Body, Mind & Spirit
Author: Gavin Hopps
Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies Lup Ser.
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
