Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Tracing the fragments of modernity -- Part I (De)Generating doubles: duality and the split personality in the prose writing of James Hogg, Robert -- Introduction -- 1 Speaking and answering in the character of another: James Hogg's private memoirs -- 2 He, I say - I cannot say, I: Robert Louis Stevenson's strange case -- 3 The psychopathology of everyday narcissism: Oscar Wilde's picture -- Part II The stripping of the halo: religion and identity in the poetry of Alfred Tennyson, James 'B. V.' Thomson and Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Introduction -- 4 A life of death: Alfred Tennyson's 'St Simeon Stylites' -- 5 But what am I? Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam -- 6 All is vanity and nothingness: James 'B. V.' Thomson's haunted city -- 7 Dead letters: Gerard Manley Hopkins's 'Terrible Sonnets' -- Part III Infected ecstasy: addiction and modernity in the work of Thomas De Quincey, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti and Bram Stoker -- Introduction -- 8 A change in physical economy: Thomas De Quincey's confession -- 9 Coming like ghosts to trouble joy: Alfred Tennyson's 'The Lotos Eaters' -- 10 Like honey to the throat but poison to the blood: Christina Rossetti's addictive market -- 11 The blood is the life: Bram Stoker's infected capital -- Conclusion Ghost-script -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
Seiten:
1 online resource (347 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781835534038
Serie:
Liverpool English Texts and Studies v.44
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=31016141
DDC:
820.9008
Sprache:
Englisch
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