Excavating Modernity: Physical, Temporal and Psychological Strata in Literature, 1900-1930

ISBN-13: 9780367588656 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 182 str.

Eleanor Dobson; Gemma Banks

Opis

This book explores the entwinement of physical, temporal and psychological strata across literature, 1900 to 1930. With particular emphases on geological and archaeological tropes and conceptions of the stratified psyche, it charts these themes across diverse genres, from theatre to ghost stories, children’s literature to modernist masterpieces.

Spis treści

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 Séance: 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

O autorze

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.