The Resource Literary ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism : the haunting interval, Luke Thurston
Literary ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism : the haunting interval, Luke Thurston
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- Summary
- 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. --
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780415509664
- Label
- Literary ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism : the haunting interval
- Title
- Literary ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism
- Title remainder
- the haunting interval
- Statement of responsibility
- Luke Thurston
- Subject
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- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
- Ghosts in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance
- Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. --
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- Thurston, Luke
- Dewey number
- 823/.087330908
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR478.M6
- LC item number
- T48 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature
- Series volume
- 27
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English literature
- English literature
- Modernism (Literature)
- Ghosts in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
- Label
- Literary ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism : the haunting interval, Luke Thurston
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- volume
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- 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
- Control code
- 768171661
- Dimensions
- cm.
- Extent
- pages
- Isbn
- 9780415509664
- Lccn
- 2011052172
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)768171661
- Label
- Literary ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism : the haunting interval, Luke Thurston
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 768171661
- Dimensions
- cm.
- Extent
- pages
- Isbn
- 9780415509664
- Lccn
- 2011052172
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)768171661
Subject
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
- Ghosts in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance
- Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
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