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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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Texts and Abbreviations
Introduction: The Re-Enchantment of Romanticism
Chapter 1: Determining Unknown Modes of Being: A Map of Byron's Ghosts and Spirits
BERNARD BEATTY
Chapter 2: S hades of Being: Byron and the Trespassing of Ontology
GAVIN HOPPS
Chapter 3: Byron and the Noonday Demons
MARY HURST
Chapter 4: Conjuration and Exorcism: Byron's Spectral Rhetoric
DALE TOWNSHEND
Chapter 5: Byron avec Sade: Material and Spectral Violence in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto
PIYA PAL-LAPINSKI
Chapter 6: ''Twixt Life and Death': Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Don Juan and the Sublime
PHILIP SHAW
Chapter 7: Byron, Ann Radcliffe and the Religious Implications of the Explained Supernatural in Don Juan
ALISON MILBANK
Chapter 8: The Haunting of Don Juan
PETER W. GRAHAM
Chapter 9: Being neither Here nor There: Byron and the Art of Flirtation
CORIN THROSBY
Afterword: Blowing on a Dead Man's Embers: Byron's Biographical Ghosts
PETER ALLENDER
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index