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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Thurston, Luke
Titre(s) : Literary ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism [Texte imprimé] : the haunting interval / Luke Thurston
Publication : New York : Routledge, 2012
Description matérielle : 186 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 27
Lien à la collection : Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
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. Linking little-studied authors like M. R.
James and May Sinclair to such canonical figures as Dickens, Henry James, Woolf, and
Joyce, Thurston argues that the literary ghost should be seen as no mere relic of
gothic style but as a portal of discovery, an opening onto the central modernist problem
of how to write 'life itself'. Ghost stories should be seen as a distinctly neo-gothic
genre, and as such are split between an ironic, often parodic reference to Gothic
style and an evocation of 'life itself,' an implicit repudiation of all literary style.
Reading the ghost story as both a guest and a host story, this book traces the ghost
as a disruptive figure in the 'hospitable' space of narrative from Maturin, Poe and
Dickens to the fin de siècle, and then on into the twentieth century. --
Sujet(s) : Fantômes -- Dans la littérature
Littérature anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Littérature anglaise -- 1900-1945 -- Thèmes, motifs
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780415509664 (hardback). - ISBN 0415509661 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb426924514
Notice n° :
FRBNF42692451
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