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1 online resource (257 pages) |
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Liverpool English Texts and Studies ; v. 62 |
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Liverpool English texts and studies.
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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 |
| Summary |
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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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 fast |
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Byron, George Noël Gordon, Baron Byron, 1788-1824. (NL-LeOCL)068387717 nta |
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Supernatural in literature.
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17.93 themes and motives in literature.
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18.05 English literature.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Supernatural in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781781385562 |
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1781385564 |
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