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UNINA9910453301503321 |
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Titolo |
Byron's ghosts : the spectral, the spiritual and the supernatural / / edited by Gavin Hopps |
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Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-78138-092-9 |
1-78138-556-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Collana |
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Liverpool English texts and studies ; ; 62 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ghosts |
Occultism |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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