Byron`s Ghosts – The Spectral, the Spiritual and the Supernatural Hopps Hardback

Byron's GhostsThe Spectral, the Spiritual and the Supernatural\nAuthor(s): Gavin Hopps\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781846319709, 978-1846319709\nSynopsis\nByron 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 poets claim that immaterialisms 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 Byrons poetry.\n\nByrons Ghosts is the first book-length examination of spectrality in Byrons 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.