Haunting's consequences for the literary imagination. Reading is a
weirdly phantasmic trade: animating words to revive absent voices,
rehearing the past, fantasizing a future. In Romantic Shades and
Shadows, Susan J. Wolfson explores spectral language, formations,
and sensations, defining an apparitional poetics in the finely
grained textures of writing and their effects on present reading.
Framed by an introductory chapter on writing and apparition and an
afterword on haunted reading, the book includes chapters of
sustained, revelatory close attention to the particular, often
peculiar, literary imaginations of William Wordsworth, William
Hazlitt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, W. B. Yeats, and John
Keats. Wolfson also explores the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (a
self-confessed Ghost-Theorist), Mary Shelley, and other writers of
the Long Romantic era, canonical as well as less familiar. All are
encountered in freshly pointed ways on an arc of investigation that
builds with generative force. Romantic Shades and Shadows is
written with a lucidity, wit, and accessibility that will appeal to
general readers, and with a critical sophistication and scholarly
expertise that will engage advanced students, critics, and
professional peers.
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