Beschreibung:
This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary response to the technological and psychological disturbances that marked the end of the Victorian era.
Prologue: Beyond My Notation Part I: Literary Hospitality 1. The Spark of Life 2. Zigzag: The Signalman Part II: Guests ¿ Ghosts 3. Broken Lineage: M. R. James 4. Ineffaceable Life: Henry James Part III: Hosts of the Living 5. A Loop in a Mesh: May Sinclair 6. Distant Music: Woolf, Joyce 7. Double-Crossing: Elizabeth Bowen Conclusion: The Ghostly Path Notes Bibliography Index