Late victorian gothic, the: mental science, the uncanny, and scenes of writing
Auteur :
Grimes, Hilary
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781409427209
Date de publication :
23 sept. 2011
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
498 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Examining the automatic writing of the spiritualist seances, discursive technologies like the telegraph and the photograph, various genres and late nineteenth-century mental science, this book shows the failure of writers' attempts to use technology as a way of translating the supernatural at the fin de siecle.