Literary ghosts from the victorians to modernism: the haunting interval
Auteur :
Thurston, Luke
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781138016217
Date de publication :
14 févr. 2014
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
294 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.