Victorian hauntings : spectrality, Gothic, the uncanny, and literature / Julian Wolfreys.
Victorian hauntings : spectrality, Gothic, the uncanny, and literature / Julian Wolfreys.
Victorian hauntings : spectrality, Gothic, the uncanny, and literature / Julian Wolfreys.
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2002.
Date
2002.
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N820.937/8
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English
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xiv, 175 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Preface: on Textual Haunting -- 1. 'I wants to make your flesh creep': Dickens and the Comic-Gothic -- 2. Tennyson's Faith: In Memoriam A. H. H. -- 3. Phantom Optics: George Eliot's The Lifted Veil -- 4. Little Dorrit's 'land of fragments' -- 5. 'The persistence of the unforeseen': The Mayor of Cast...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2002.
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England
Date Published
2002.
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"Victorian Hauntings asks its reader to consider the following questions: 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 o...
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Victorian hauntings : spectrality, Gothic, the uncanny, and literature / Julian Wolfreys.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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0333922522 (pbk.)
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0333922514
9780333922521 (pbk.)
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820.93709034
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