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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.

Ghosts. --- Occultism. --- Art, Black (Magic) --- Arts, Black (Magic) --- Black art (Magic) --- Black arts (Magic) --- Occult, The --- Occult sciences --- Occultism --- Supernatural --- New Age movement --- Parapsychology --- Phantoms --- Specters --- Spectres --- Apparitions --- Byron, George Gordon Byron, --- Byron, George Gordon Byron --- Baĭron, Dzhordzh Gordon --- Baĭron, G. --- Baĭron, Jorj, --- Bairon, --- Bajron, Džordž Gordon --- Bajron, --- Bajroni, Xhorxh --- Bayrěn, --- Bayron, --- Bayron, Tzōrtz Gkorton Bayron --- Bayrūn --- Byron, George Gordon Noël Byron --- Byron, Jerzy Gordon --- Byron, --- Gordon, George --- Mpayron, Tzōrtz Nkorton Mpayron --- Pai-lun --- Payrěn --- Vyrōn --- בײראָן, לאָרד --- בירון --- בירון, לורד --- בירון, ג׳ורג׳ גורדון נואל, --- בירון, ג'ורג' גורדון בירון, --- בייראן --- בייראן, --- בייראן, לארד --- ביירון, לורד --- ביירון, --- Lord Byron --- Byron --- Byron, George Gordon Noël --- Supernatural in literature. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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This book explores the ways in which music can engender religious experience, by virtue of its ability to evoke the ineffable and affect how the world is open to us. Arguing against approaches that limit the religious significance of music to an illustrative function, The Extravagance of Music sets out a more expansive and optimistic vision, which suggests that there is an ‘excess’ or ‘extravagance’ in both music and the divine that can open up revelatory and transformative possibilities. In Part I, David Brown argues that even in the absence of words, classical instrumental music can disclose something of the divine nature that allows us to speak of an experience analogous to contemplative prayer. In Part II, Gavin Hopps contends that, far from being a wasteland of mind-closing triviality, popular music frequently aspires to elicit the imaginative engagement of the listener and is capable of evoking intimations of transcendence. Filled with fresh and accessible discussions of diverse examples and forms of music, this ground-breaking book affirms the disclosive and affective capacities of music, and shows how it can help to awaken, vivify, and sustain a sense of the divine in everyday life.

Philosophy. --- Music. --- Religion --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Philosophy of Music. --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Music --- Religious aspects. --- Music in worship --- Religion and music --- Music—Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Religion—Philosophy.

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