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Labyrinths of deceit : culture, modernity and identity in the nineteenth century /
Prominent citizens in 19th-century England believed themselves to be living in a time of unstoppable progress. Yet running just beneath Victorian triumphalism were strong undercurrents of chaos and uncertainty.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Liverpool English texts and studies ;
44. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Tracing the fragments of modernity
- Part I. (De)Generating doubles : duality and the split personality in the prose writing of James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson and Oscar Wilde
- Introduction
- Speaking and answering in the character of another : James Hogg's private memoirs
- He, I say, I cannot say, I : Robert Louis Stevenson's strange case
- The psychopathology of everyday narcissism : Oscar Wilde's picture
- Part II. The stripping of the halo : religion and identity in the poetry of Alfred Tennyson, James 'B.V.' Thomson and Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Introduction
- A life of death : Alfred Tennyson's 'St Simeon stylites'
- But what am I? Alfred Tennyson's In memoriam
- All in vanity and nothingness : James 'B.V.' Thomson's haunted city
- Dead letters : Gerard Manley Hopkins's 'terrible sonnets'
- Part III. Infected ecstasy : addiction and modernity in the work of Thomas De Quincey, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti and Bram Stoker
- Introduction
- A change in physical economy : Thomas De Quincey's confession
- Coming like ghosts to trouble joy : Alfred Tennyson's 'The Lotos eaters'
- Like honey to the throat but poison to the blood : Christina Rossetti's addictive market
- The blood is the life : Bram Stoker's infected capital
- Conclusion : Ghost-script.