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题名/责任者:

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

出版发行项:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

ISBN:

9780415509664 (hardback)

ISBN:

0415509661 (hardback)

载体形态项:

186 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

丛编题名:

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 27.

个人责任者:

Thurston, Luke.

论题主题:

English literature-20th century-History and criticism-Theory, etc.

论题主题:

English literature-19th century-History and criticism-Theory, etc.

论题主题:

Modernism (Literature)-Great Britain.

论题主题:

Ghosts in literature.

中图法分类号:

I561.06

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

内容附注:

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.

摘要附注:

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 si?cle, and then on into the twentieth century. --Provided by publisher.

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