Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture: 1800-Present

ISBN-13: 9783030074500 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 258 str.

Julian Wolfreys

Recenzje

"Well-researched, diverse, and comprehensive, Wolfreys's thought-provoking interdisciplinary study opens up new ways of seeing ourselves and the world. A broad and wide-ranging monograph, Haunted Selves is a valuable contribution to English cultural and literary studies and is compelling reading for academics and non-academics alike. ... Wolfreys invites readers to find new ways of understanding the poetics of space, self, and memory in a study that is a superb tribute to storytelling, celebrating the enduring power of literature ... ." (Monika Kosa, Victoriographies, Vol. 11 (2), July, 2021)

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Introduction

 

HAUNTED PREMISES

       The Chapter Before the First: Dwelling and the Uncanny

I     POEM, SUBJECT, PLACE

 English Losses: Thomas Hardy and the Memory of Wessex

 All You Need is Love? Edward Thomas, Apostrophizing the Other

II HAUNTED VICTORIOGRAPHIES, LATE-VICTORIAN & NEO-VICTORIAN

 ‘A parallel dimension’: The Haunted Streets and Spectral Poethics of the Neo-Victorian Novel

III RURAL HAUNTINGS, ENGLISH LOSSES, CULTURAL MEMORY

‘Can you tell me where my country lies?’: Re-membering, Re-presenting the Forgotten

‘Chewing through your Wimpey dreams’: Whimsy, Loss, and the ‘experience’ of the Rural in English Music and Art, 1966-1976

IV VOICES IN A LANDSCAPE

‘And for a moment’: Voicing the Landscape with Alice Oswald and John Burnside

‘It was suddenly hard winter’: Crossing the Field with John Burnside

Place and Displacement: Julian Barnes and the Haunted Self

O autorze

Julian Wolfreys is Professor of English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and author and editor of numerous books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, and literary theory. He is also the author of a novel, Silent Music (2014) and three volumes of poetry. 

 

Blurb

Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture offers a series of readings of poetry, the novel and other forms of art and cultural expression, to explore the relationship between subject and landscape, self and place. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach grounded in close reading, the text places Jacques Derrida’s work on spectrality in dialogue with particular aspects of phenomenology. The volume explores writing and culture from the 1880s to the present day, proceeding through four sections examining related questions of identity, memory, the landscape, and our modern relationship to the past. Julian Wolfreys presents a theoretically informed understanding of the efficacy of literature and culture in connecting us to the past in an affective and engaged manner.