LEADER 03902oam 2200721I 450 001 9910799903603321 005 20240131151708.0 010 $a1-136-28247-5 010 $a1-283-64317-0 010 $a0-203-11249-0 010 $a1-136-28248-3 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203112496 035 $a(CKB)2670000000259386 035 $a(EBL)1039306 035 $a(OCoLC)812914953 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000758205 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11413957 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000758205 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10773947 035 $a(PQKB)10930735 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1039306 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1039306 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10611762 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL395567 035 $a(OCoLC)995524157 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB134582 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000259386 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLiterary ghosts from the Victorians to modernism $ethe haunting interval /$fLuke Thurston 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (191 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge studies in twentieth-century literature ;$v27 225 0$aRoutledge studies in twentieth-century literature ;$v27 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-01621-7 311 $a0-415-50966-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue: 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. 330 $aThis book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary response to the technological and psychological disturbances that marked the end of the Victorian era. Linking little-studied authors like M. R. James and May Sinclair to such canonical figures as Dickens, Henry James, Woolf, and Joyce, Thurston argues that the literary ghost should be seen as no mere relic of gothic style but as a portal of discovery, an opening onto the central modernist problem of how to write 'life itself'. Ghost stories should be seen as a distinctly neo-gothic genre, and as such are split between an ironic, often parodic reference to Gothic style and an evocation of 'life itself,' an implicit repudiation of all literary style. Reading the ghost story as both a guest and a host story, this book traces the ghost as a disruptive figure in the 'hospitable' space of narrative from Maturin, Poe and Dickens to the fin de siecle, and then on into the twentieth century. --$cSource other than Library of Congress. 410 0$aRoutledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature 606 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zGreat Britain 606 $aGhosts in literature 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aGhosts in literature. 676 $a823/.087330908 686 $aLIT004120$aLIT004180$aLIT004130$2bisacsh 700 $aThurston$b Luke.$0290501 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910799903603321 996 $aLiterary ghosts from the Victorians to modernism$93875919 997 $aUNINA