Literary ghosts from the Victorians to modernism : the haunting interval / / Luke Thurston

• Autore: Thurston Luke
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
• Disciplina: 823/.087330908
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 20th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc; English literature - 19th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc; Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain; Ghosts in literature
• Classificazione: LIT004120LIT004180LIT004130
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 siecle, and then on into the twentieth century. --
• Titolo autorizzato: Literary ghosts from the Victorians to modernism
• ISBN: 1-136-28247-5; 1-283-64317-0; 0-203-11249-0; 1-136-28248-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785994303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature