{"product_id":"byrons-ghosts-the-spectral-the-spiritual-and-the-supernatural-9781846319709","title":"Byron's Ghosts: The Spectral, the Spiritual and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eByron 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is a strong collection of essays on an excellent, and original, topic.  \u003ci\u003eByron's Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e manifestly enhances and modifies our understanding of Byron.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAlan Rawes\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTexts and Abbreviations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: The Re-Enchantment of Romanticism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1: Determining Unknown Modes of Being: A Map of Byron’s Ghosts and Spirits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBERNARD BEATTY\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2: S hades of Being: Byron and the Trespassing of Ontology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGAVIN HOPPS\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3: Byron and the Noonday Demons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMARY HURST\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4: Conjuration and Exorcism: Byron’s Spectral Rhetoric\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDALE TOWNSHEND\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5: Byron avec Sade: Material and Spectral Violence in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePIYA PAL-LAPINSKI\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6: ‘’Twixt Life and Death’: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Don Juan and the Sublime\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePHILIP SHAW\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7: Byron, Ann Radcliffe and the Religious Implications of the Explained Supernatural in Don Juan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eALISON MILBANK\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8: The Haunting of Don Juan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePETER W. GRAHAM\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9: Being neither Here nor There: Byron and the Art of Flirtation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCORIN THROSBY\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword: Blowing on a Dead Man’s Embers: Byron’s Biographical Ghosts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePETER ALLENDER\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360209535319,"sku":"9781846319709","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781846319709.jpg?v=1754126991","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/byrons-ghosts-the-spectral-the-spiritual-and-the-supernatural-9781846319709","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}