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

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Eleanor (University of Birmingham Dobson, Eleanor Banks Dobson
• Assisted by: Gemma Banks (Editor), Gemma (University of Birmingham Banks (Editor), Eleanor Dobson (Editor), Eleanor (University of Birmingham Dobson (Editor), Dobson Eleanor (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138317765
• ISBN: 978-1-138-31776-5
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Studies for the International Society for Cultural History; Studies for the International Society for Cultural History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Civilization, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Social & cultural history, Historiography, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general