Byron's Ghosts: The Spectral, the Spiritual and the Supernatural (Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 62)
Byron's Ghosts: The Spectral, the Spiritual and the Supernatural (Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 62)
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In Byron's Ghosts British and American scholars join together to overturn some of the prevailing assumptions that romance scholars have made about Byron, offering a fresh new reading of his poetry. Informed by recent critical theory focused on spectrality, they look at ghosts in his work, both in the conventional sense--what Mary Shelley once described as the "true, old-fashioned, foretelling, flitting, gliding ghost"--and in a postmodern sense, one concerned with a range of phantom effects. Balancing attention on these diverse concepts of the ghost, their essays complicate the popular images of Byron as a materialist, skeptic, and anti-Romantic, revealing crucial new insights about his poetry.