Victorian hauntings: spectrality, Gothic, the uncanny and literature

What does it mean to read or write with ghosts, or to suggest that acts of reading or writing are haunted? In what ways can authors in the nineteenth century be read so as to acknowledge the various phantom effects which return within their texts? In what ways do the traces of such 'ghost writi...

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Main Author: Wolfreys, Julian 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 2002
London ; New York Bloomsbury Academic 2022
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Summary:What does it mean to read or write with ghosts, or to suggest that acts of reading or writing are haunted? In what ways can authors in the nineteenth century be read so as to acknowledge the various phantom effects which return within their texts? In what ways do the traces of such 'ghost writing' surface in the works of Dickens, Tennyson, Eliot and Hardy? Beginning with an exploration of matters of haunting, the uncanny, the gothic and the spectral, Julian Wolfreys traces the ghostly resonances at work in Victorian writing and how such persistence addresses issues of memory and responsibility which haunt the work of reading
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 175 S.)
ISBN:9781403913586
9781350490659
9780230211711
DOI:10.1007/978-1-4039-1358-6

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