The late Victorian Gothic : mental science, the uncanny, and scenes of writing / Hilary Grimes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grimes, Hilary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Technology in literature.

Psychology in literature.

Supernatural in literature.

Literature and technology--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and technology.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

188 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2011.

Summary:

This volume on comparative Victorian Gothic literature explores the conflict between the rational and scientific sensibilities of the age with the development of spiritualist and occultist themes in popular culture and popular texts of the era. Considering works by Henry James, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sarah Grand and George Paston, the author explores topics such as advances in the "mental science," gender, modernism ,and identity in the Fin de Siecle. Grimes is an independent scholar based in Massachusetts. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

{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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-180) and index.

ISBN:

9781409427209

140942720X

9781409427216

1409427218

OCLC:

712780850