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• 2011052172 abstract "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. Linking little-studied authors like M. R. James and May Sinclair to such canonical figures as Dickens, Henry James, Woolf, and Joyce, Thurston argues that the literary ghost should be seen as no mere relic of gothic style but as a portal of discovery, an opening onto the central modernist problem of how to write 'life itself'. Ghost stories should be seen as a distinctly neo-gothic genre, and as such are split between an ironic, often parodic reference to Gothic style and an evocation of 'life itself,' an implicit repudiation of all literary style. Reading the ghost story as both a guest and a host story, this book traces the ghost as a disruptive figure in the 'hospitable' space of narrative from Maturin, Poe and Dickens to the fin de siècle, and then on into the twentieth century. -- Source other than Library of Congress.".
• 2011052172 contributor B12161176.
• 2011052172 created "2012.".
• 2011052172 date "2012".
• 2011052172 date "2012.".
• 2011052172 dateCopyrighted "2012.".
• 2011052172 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• 2011052172 description "Prologue: Beyond my notation -- Pt. 1. Literary hospitality -- The spark of life -- Zigzag: the Signalman -- Pt. 2. Guests ? Ghosts -- Broken lineage: M. R. James -- Ineffaceable life: Henry James -- Pt. 3. Hosts of the living -- A loop in a mesh: May Sinclair -- Distant music: Woolf, Joyce -- Double-crossing: Elizabeth Bowen -- Conclusion: the ghostly path.".
• 2011052172 description "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. Linking little-studied authors like M. R. James and May Sinclair to such canonical figures as Dickens, Henry James, Woolf, and Joyce, Thurston argues that the literary ghost should be seen as no mere relic of gothic style but as a portal of discovery, an opening onto the central modernist problem of how to write 'life itself'. Ghost stories should be seen as a distinctly neo-gothic genre, and as such are split between an ironic, often parodic reference to Gothic style and an evocation of 'life itself,' an implicit repudiation of all literary style. Reading the ghost story as both a guest and a host story, this book traces the ghost as a disruptive figure in the 'hospitable' space of narrative from Maturin, Poe and Dickens to the fin de siècle, and then on into the twentieth century. -- Source other than Library of Congress.".
• 2011052172 extent "186 p. :".
• 2011052172 identifier "9780415509664 (hardback)".
• 2011052172 isPartOf "Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 27".
• 2011052172 issued "2012".
• 2011052172 issued "2012.".
• 2011052172 language "eng".
• 2011052172 publisher "New York : Routledge,".
• 2011052172 spatial "Great Britain.".
• 2011052172 subject "823/.087330908 23".
• 2011052172 subject "English literature 19th century History and criticism Theory, etc.".
• 2011052172 subject "English literature 20th century History and criticism Theory, etc.".
• 2011052172 subject "Ghosts in literature.".
• 2011052172 subject "LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh".
• 2011052172 subject "LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. bisacsh".
• 2011052172 subject "LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance. bisacsh".
• 2011052172 subject "Modernism (Literature) Great Britain.".
• 2011052172 subject "PR478.M6 T48 2012".
• 2011052172 tableOfContents "Prologue: Beyond my notation -- Pt. 1. Literary hospitality -- The spark of life -- Zigzag: the Signalman -- Pt. 2. Guests ? Ghosts -- Broken lineage: M. R. James -- Ineffaceable life: Henry James -- Pt. 3. Hosts of the living -- A loop in a mesh: May Sinclair -- Distant music: Woolf, Joyce -- Double-crossing: Elizabeth Bowen -- Conclusion: the ghostly path.".
• 2011052172 title "Literary ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism : the haunting interval / Luke Thurston.".
• 2011052172 type "text".