Haunting Modernisms
Subtitle: Ghostly Aesthetics, Mourning, and Spectral Resistance Fantasies in Literary Modernism
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 20, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9783319654843
Description: This book is about haunting in modernist literature. Offering an extended and textually-sensitive reading of modernist spectrality that has yet to be undertaken by scholars of either haunting or modernism, it provides a fresh reconceptualization of modernist haunting by synthesizing recent critical work in the fields of haunting studies, Gothic modernisms, and mourning modernisms. The chapters read the form and function of the ghostly as it appears in the work of a constellation of important modernist contributors, including T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Elizabeth Bowen, Wyndham Lewis, Richard Aldington, and Ford Madox Ford. It is of particular significance to scholars and students in a wide range of fields of study, including modernism, literary theory, and the Gothic.
Notes: Source title: Haunting Modernisms: Ghostly Aesthetics, Mourning, and Spectral Resistance Fantasies in Literary Modernism