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.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2012-06-14
Language: English
Number of Pages: 202
Edition: 1
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..