Byron's ghosts : the spectral, the spiritual and the supernatural / / edited by Gavin Hopps

• Pubblicazione: Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 821.7
• Soggetto topico: Ghosts; Occultism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: HoppsGavin
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Byron's ghosts
• ISBN: 1-78138-092-9; 1-78138-556-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453301503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Liverpool English Texts and Studies