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Byron's Ghosts - The Spectral, the Spiritual and the Supernatural (Hardcover, New)
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Byron's Ghosts - The Spectral, the Spiritual and the Supernatural (Hardcover, New)
Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 62
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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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