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Thurston, Luke.

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Literary ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism : = the haunting interval /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Literary ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism :/ Luke Thurston.
Reminder of title:	the haunting interval /
Author:	Thurston, Luke.
Published:	New York :Routledge, : 2012.,
Description:	186 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
Subject:	English literature - History and criticism - 19th century -
ISBN:	9780415509664 (hbk.) :

Literary ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism : = the haunting interval /
Thurston, Luke.

Literary ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism :the haunting interval /Luke Thurston. - New York :Routledge,2012. - 186 p. :ill. ;24 cm. - Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ;27.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue : Beyond my notation -- Literary hospitality --

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. --

ISBN: 9780415509664 (hbk.) :UK85.00

LCCN: 2011052172Subjects--Topical Terms:

685002
English literature
--History and criticism--19th century

LC Class. No.: PR478.M6 / T48 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.087330908

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