Examining technological advances, genre and late nineteenth-century mental science, Grimes shows writers' failed attempts to use technology as a way of translating the supernatural at the fin de siècle. She treats a wide range of authors, including Henry James, George Du Maurier, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Vernon Lee and Sarah Grand to show the end of the nineteenth century produced a Gothicism specific to the period.
Examining technological advances, genre and late nineteenth-century mental science, Grimes shows writers' failed attempts to use technology as a way of translating the supernatural at the fin de siècle. She treats a wide range of authors, including Henry James, George Du Maurier, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Vernon Lee and Sarah Grand to show the end of the nineteenth century produced a Gothicism specific to the period.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Hilary Grimes is an independent scholar living in Massachusetts, USA.
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Contents: Introduction (Ghost)writing Henry James: mental science, spiritualism and uncanny technologies of writing at the fin de siècle Sensitive to the invisible: photography and the supernatural in the Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle's spiritualism and Francis Galton's composite portraits Identities and powers in flux: mesmerism, hypnotism and George Du Maurier's Trilby Ghostwomen, ghostwriting Case study: Vernon Lee, aesthetics and the supernatural Balancing on supernatural wires: the figure of the new woman writer in Sarah Grand's The Beth Book and George Paston's A Writer of Books Postscript Bibliography Index.
Contents: Introduction (Ghost)writing Henry James: mental science, spiritualism and uncanny technologies of writing at the fin de siècle Sensitive to the invisible: photography and the supernatural in the Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle's spiritualism and Francis Galton's composite portraits Identities and powers in flux: mesmerism, hypnotism and George Du Maurier's Trilby Ghostwomen, ghostwriting Case study: Vernon Lee, aesthetics and the supernatural Balancing on supernatural wires: the figure of the new woman writer in Sarah Grand's The Beth Book and George Paston's A Writer of Books Postscript Bibliography Index.
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