Byron's Ghosts: The Spectral, the Spiritual and the Supernatural
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15 December 2013
Online ISBN:
9781781380925
Print ISBN:
9781846319709
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Seven Byron, Ann Radcliffe and the Religious Implications of the Explained Supernatural in Don Juan
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165–183
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Published:15 December 2013
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Milbank, Alison, 'Byron, Ann Radcliffe and the Religious Implications of the Explained Supernatural in Don Juan', in Gavin Hopps (ed.), Byron's Ghosts: The Spectral, the Spiritual and the Supernatural (Liverpool , 2013; online edn, Liverpool Scholarship Online, 18 Sept. 2014), https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781846319709.003.0008, accessed 12 July 2026.
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Abstract
This chapter proposes a Radcliffean Gothic structure to the ghost scenes of Canto XVI of Byron’s unfinished epic, Don Juan, in an attempt to both explicate the complex nature of the poet’s attitude to the transcendent and to clarify the overall philosophical trajectory of his poem. In suggesting that the explained supernatural is used by Byron to trace a middle path between idealism and a dead materialism, it also hopes to mediate between the Christian idealism of Bernard Beatty’s interpretation of these English Cantos and those, like Jerome McGann, who uphold Byron’s ultimate scepticism and proleptic postmodernity.
Keywords:
poetry, Radcliffean Gothic structure, ghost scenes, transcendent, idealism, materialism, Bernard Beatty, Jerome McGann, scepticism
Subject
Literary Studies (Romanticism)
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Liverpool Scholarship Online
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