Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism

Luke Thurston

Original title: Literary ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism

earliest edition we have, 2012 Taylor & Francis Group, 2014 202 pages

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature — book 27

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,...

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Editions we hold

Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism edition · 2014 · Taylor & Francis Group · 202 pages · 9781138016217
Literary ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism edition · 2012 · Routledge · 9780415509664
Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism edition · 2012 · Taylor & Francis Group · 186 pages · 9781136282478
Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism edition · 2012 · Taylor & Francis Group · 186 pages · 9781136282485
Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism edition · 2012 · Routledge · 9781283643177
Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism edition · 2012 · Taylor & Francis Group · 186 pages · 9781136282430
Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism edition · 2012 · Taylor & Francis Group · 186 pages · 9780203112496

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