TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hopps,Gavin
TI  - Byron's Ghosts: The Spectral, the Spiritual and the Supernatural
T2  - Liverpool English Texts and Studies
SN  - 9781781385562
AV  - PR4392 .B976 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Liverpool
PB  - Liverpool University Press
KW  - Supernatural in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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