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.
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.
Luke Thurston is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at Aberystwyth University, UK. He is the author of James Joyce and the Problem of Psychoanalysis (2004), the editor of Re-inventing the Symptom: Essays on the Final Lacan (2002), and the translator of works by Jean Laplanche and André Green.
Inhaltsangabe
Prologue: Beyond My Notation Part I: Literary Hospitality 1. The Spark of Life 2. Zigzag: The Signalman Part II: Guests ¿ Ghosts 3. Broken Lineage: M. R. James 4. Ineffaceable Life: Henry James Part III: Hosts of the Living 5. A Loop in a Mesh: May Sinclair 6. Distant Music: Woolf, Joyce 7. Double-Crossing: Elizabeth Bowen Conclusion: The Ghostly Path Notes Bibliography Index
Prologue: Beyond My Notation Part I: Literary Hospitality 1. The Spark of Life 2. Zigzag: The Signalman Part II: Guests ¿ Ghosts 3. Broken Lineage: M. R. James 4. Ineffaceable Life: Henry James Part III: Hosts of the Living 5. A Loop in a Mesh: May Sinclair 6. Distant Music: Woolf, Joyce 7. Double-Crossing: Elizabeth Bowen Conclusion: The Ghostly Path Notes Bibliography Index
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