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This book is about haunting in modernist literature. Offering an extended and textually-sensitive reading of modernist spectrality that has yet to be undertaken
Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism
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Pages: 192
Authors: Luke Thurston
Categories: Literary Criticism
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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 or
Historical Modernisms
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Examining the ways in which modernism is created within specific historical contexts, as well as how it redefines the concept of history itself, this book sheds
Spectrality in Modernist Fiction
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Spectrality in Modernist Fiction argues that key modernist writers, chiefly Conrad, Forster, Butts, and Bowen, use spectral rhetoric to tackle problems of sex a
The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories
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Pages: 314
Authors: Emma Liggins
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This book explores Victorian and modernist haunted houses in female-authored ghost stories as representations of the architectural uncanny. It reconsiders the g