Hilary Grimes

The Late Victorian Gothic

Mental Science, the Uncanny, and Scenes of Writing

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining technological advances, genre and late nineteenth-century mental science, Grimes shows writers' failed attempts to use technology as a way of translating the supernatural at the fin de siècle. She treats a wide range of authors, including Henry James, George Du Maurier, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Vernon Lee and Sarah Grand to show the end of the nineteenth century produced a Gothicism specific to the period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781409427209
• ISBN-10: 140942720X
• Artikelnr.: 45111607

Autorenporträt

Hilary Grimes is an independent scholar living in Massachusetts, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
(Ghost)writing Henry James: mental science, spiritualism and uncanny technologies of writing at the fin de siècle
Sensitive to the invisible: photography and the supernatural in the Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle's spiritualism and Francis Galton's composite portraits
Identities and powers in flux: mesmerism, hypnotism and George Du Maurier's Trilby
Ghostwomen, ghostwriting
Case study: Vernon Lee, aesthetics and the supernatural
Balancing on supernatural wires: the figure of the new woman writer in Sarah Grand's The Beth Book and George Paston's A Writer of Books
Postscript
Bibliography
Index.