Excavating Modernity
Physical, Temporal and Psychological Strata in Literature, 1900-1930
1st Edition
Published on 4. July 2018
Book
Hardback
182 pages
978-1-138-31776-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book scrutinizes physical, temporal and psychological strata across early twentieth-century literature, focusing on geological and archaeological tropes and conceptions of the stratified psyche. The essays explore psychological perceptions, from practices of envisioning that mimic looking at a painting, photograph or projected light, to the comprehension of the palimpsestic complexities of language, memory and time. This collection is the first to see early twentieth-century physical, temporal and psychological strata interact across a range of canonical and popular authors, working in a variety of genres, from theatre to ghost stories, children's literature to modernist magna opera.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
11 s/w Abbildungen, 11 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
11 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-31776-5 (9781138317765)
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Eleanor Dobson | Gemma Banks
Excavating Modernity
Physical, Temporal and Psychological Strata in Literature, 1900-1930
Book
06/2020
1st Edition
Routledge
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Eleanor Dobson | Gemma Banks
Excavating Modernity
Physical, Temporal and Psychological Strata in Literature, 1900-1930
E-Book
07/2018
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Eleanor Dobson | Gemma Banks
Excavating Modernity
Physical, Temporal and Psychological Strata in Literature, 1900-1930
E-Book
07/2018
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Persons
Eleanor Dobson is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham.
Gemma Banks is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Birmingham.
Gemma Banks is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Birmingham.
Content
Introduction Eleanor Dobson and Gemma Banks 1. Excavating the Psyche as Constructed by Pre-Freudian Pioneers George M. Johnson 2. "As a Burnt Circle": Thomas Hardy's Visible Voices Holly Corfield Carr 3. The Dead City: Eleonora Duse and the Archaeology of the Soul Maria Pia Pagani 4. Excavating Children: Archaeological Imagination and Time Slip in the Early 1900s Virginia Zimmerman 5. The Sphinx at the Seance: Literature, Spiritualism and Psycho-Archaeology Eleanor Dobson 6. The "Carefully-Constructed Screen": Phantasmagorical Strata in the Ghost Stories of M.R. James Craig Wallace 7. Vernon Lee: Excavating The Spirit of Rome Sally Blackburn 8. Mind Strata: Layers of Consciousness in James Joyce's Ulysses Annalisa Federici 9. Husserl's Theory of Image Consciousness and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse Xavier Le Brun