Literary ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism : the haunting interval /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thurston, Luke
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Colección:Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 27.
Temas:
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
1800-1999
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain.
Ghosts in literature.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Modernisme (Littérature) > Grande-Bretagne.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Gothic & Romance.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
English literature > Theory, etc.
Ghosts in literature
Modernism (Literature)
Literatur
Englisch
Gespenst
Moderne
Engels.
Bellettrie.
Griezelverhalen.
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.

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