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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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Byron's Ghosts
• Author: Gavin Hopps
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 246
• EAN: 9781846319709
• ISBN: 1846319706
• ID: 01356887
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Weight: 520 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 156 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. October 2013

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