Literary ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism the haunting interval

This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary response to the technological and psychological disturbances that marked the end of the Victorian era. Li...

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Autor principal: Thurston, Luke (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge 2012.
Colección:Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 27
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: Beyond my notation
  • Pt. 1. Literary hospitality
  • The spark of life
  • Zigzag: the Signalman
  • Pt. 2. Guests ? Ghosts
  • Broken lineage: M. R. James
  • Ineffaceable life: Henry James
  • Pt. 3. Hosts of the living
  • A loop in a mesh: May Sinclair
  • Distant music: Woolf, Joyce
  • Double-crossing: Elizabeth Bowen
  • Conclusion: the ghostly path.