Ghostwriting Modernism
Spiritualism is often dismissed by literary critics and historians as merely a Victorian fad. Helen Sword demonstrates that it continued to flourish well into the twentieth century and seeks to explain why. Literary modernism, she maintains, is replete with ghosts and spirits. In Ghostwriting Modernism she explores spiritualism's striking persistence and what she calls the vexed relationship between mediumistic discourse and modernist literary aesthetics.Sword begins with a brief historical review of popular spiritualism's roots in nineteenth-century literary culture. She also discusses the forms of mediumship most closely allied with writing…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8014-8775-0
- EAN: 9780801487750
- Produktnummer: 1573789
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Masse: H15.7 cm x B22.8 cm x D1.4 cm 364 g
- Gewicht: 364
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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