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Byron's Ghosts: The Spectral, the Spiritual and the Supernatural (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool English Texts & Studies)
Gavin Hopps (Ed.)
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Description for Byron's Ghosts: The Spectral, the Spiritual and the Supernatural (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool English Texts & Studies)
Hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Hopps, Gavin. Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 520.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Number of pages
246
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Liverpool English Texts and Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846319709
SKU
V9781846319709
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About Gavin Hopps (Ed.)
Gavin Hopps is Director of the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, and Senior Lecturer in Literature and Theology at the University of St Andrews.
Reviews for Byron's Ghosts: The Spectral, the Spiritual and the Supernatural (Liverpool University Press - Liverpool English Texts & Studies)
'This is a strong collection of essays on an excellent, and original, topic. Byron's Ghosts manifestly enhances and modifies our understanding of Byron.' Alan Rawes