Byron's Ghosts The Spectral, the Spiritual and the Supernatural.
Hopps, Gavin.
Byron's Ghosts The Spectral, the Spiritual and the Supernatural. - Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (257 pages) - Liverpool English Texts and Studies ; v.62 .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Texts and Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Afterword; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index
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.
9781781385562
Supernatural in literature.
Electronic Books.
PR4392 / .B976 2013
Byron's Ghosts The Spectral, the Spiritual and the Supernatural. - Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (257 pages) - Liverpool English Texts and Studies ; v.62 .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Texts and Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Afterword; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index
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.
9781781385562
Supernatural in literature.
Electronic Books.
PR4392 / .B976 2013