Literary ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism : the haunting interval / Luke Thurston.
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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Table of Contents:
- 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.