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

• Pubblicazione: Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 821/.7
• Soggetto topico: Supernatural in literature
• Persona (resp. second.): HoppsGavin
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : The re-enchantment of romanticism -- Determining unknown modes of being : a map of Byron's ghosts and spirits / Bernard Beatty -- Shades of being : Byron and the trespassing of ontology / Gavin Hopps -- Byron and the noonday demons / Mary Hurst -- Conjuration and exorcism : Byron's spectral rhetoric / Dale Townshend -- Byron avec Sade : material and spectral violence in Childe Harold's pilgrimage canto IV / Piya Pal-Lapinski -- "Twixt life and death" : Childe Harold's pilgrimage, Don Juan and the sublime / Philip Shaw -- Byron, Ann Radcliffe and the religious implications of the explained supernatural in Don Juan / Alison Milbank -- The haunting of Don Juan / Peter W. Graham -- Being neither here nor there : Byron and the art of flirtation / Corin Throsby -- ; Afterword: Blowing on a dead man's embers : Byron's biographical ghost / Peter Allender.
• 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 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.
• 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.: 9910790876203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Liverpool English texts and studies ; ; 62.