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Byron's ghosts the spectral, the spiritual and the supernatural / edited by Gavin Hopps.
| Other author | Hopps, Gavin. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013. |
| Description | x, 246 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Liverpool English texts and studies ; 62 Liverpool English texts and studies 62. ^A248590 |
| Contents | Introduction : The re-enchantment of romanticism -- Determining unknown modes of being : a map of Byron's ghosts and spirits / Bernard Beatty -- Shades of being : Byron and the trespassing of ontology / Gavin Hopps -- Byron and the noonday demons / Mary Hurst -- Conjuration and exorcism : Byron's spectral rhetoric / Dale Townshend -- Byron avec Sade : material and spectral violence in Childe Harold's pilgrimage canto IV / Piya Pal-Lapinski -- "Twixt life and death" : Childe Harold's pilgrimage, Don Juan and the sublime / Philip Shaw -- Byron, Ann Radcliffe and the religious implications of the explained supernatural in Don Juan / Alison Milbank -- The haunting of Don Juan / Peter W. Graham -- Being neither here nor there : Byron and the art of flirtation / Corin Throsby -- Afterword: Blowing on a dead man's embers : Byron's biographical ghost / Peter Allender. |
| Abstract | "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" -- Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-239) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013498487 |
| ISBN | 9781846319709 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 1846319706 (hbk.) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |