Victorian Hauntings: Spectrality, Gothic, the Uncanny and Literature

by Julian Wolfreys

Book Overview

Victorian Hauntings asks its reader to consider the following questions:

What does it mean to read or write with ghosts, or to suggest that acts of reading or writing are haunted? In what ways can authors in the nineteenth century be read so as to acknowledge the various phantom effects which return within their texts? In what ways do the traces of such "ghost writing" surface in the works of Dickens, Tennyson, Eliot and Hardy? How does...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333922522
• ISBN13: 9780333922521
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"