Haunting Modernisms
Ghostly Aesthetics, Mourning, and Spectral Resistance Fantasies in Literary Modernism
Published on 24. May 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 222 pages
978-3-319-88040-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book is about haunting in modernist literature. Offering an extended and textually-sensitive reading of modernist spectrality that has yet to be undertaken by scholars of either haunting or modernism, it provides a fresh reconceptualization of modernist haunting by synthesizing recent critical work in the fields of haunting studies, Gothic modernisms, and mourning modernisms. The chapters read the form and function of the ghostly as it appears in the work of a constellation of important modernist contributors, including T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Elizabeth Bowen, Wyndham Lewis, Richard Aldington, and Ford Madox Ford. It is of particular significance to scholars and students in a wide range of fields of study, including modernism, literary theory, and the Gothic.
Reviews / Votes
"Haunting Modernisms attempts to bridge the gap between Gothic and Modernist definitions of what it means to haunt and be haunted. . Each chapter sows the seeds of discussions yet to come, creating a rich and complex study that draws together both theoretical and historical approaches." (Lucy Hall, Fantastika Journal, Vol. 3 (4), January, 2019)More details
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XII, 222 p.
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
311 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-319-88040-2 (9783319880402)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-65485-0
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Matt Foley
Haunting Modernisms
Ghostly Aesthetics, Mourning, and Spectral Resistance Fantasies in Literary Modernism
Book
11/2017
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
Matt Foley
has particular research interests in modernism, the Gothic, the ghost story and literary acoustics. From 2015-2017, he held a Lectureship at the University of Stirling, UK, where he taught on a range of courses in modern and contemporary literature. He is currently writing on a diverse range of topics, including the acoustics of Gothic literature and the fiction of Michel Faber and Patrick McGrath.
Haunting Modernisms
is his first monograph.
Content
1. Introduction: modernism, mourning, and the ghostly.- 2. Haunted images, deadness, and impossible mourning.- 3. Melancholia and the dead in T. S. Eliot's aesthetics of purgatory.- 4. Pursuing the phantom in Woolf's aesthetics of survival.- 5. The gaze in Elizabeth Bowen's spectral resistance fantasies.- 6. The blood consciousness and Lawrence's silent ghosts.- 7. Conclusion: The other/Other and locating the ghostly.- Index.