Overview

This book scrutinizes physical, temporal and psychological strata across early twentieth-century literature, focusing on geological and archaeological tropes and conceptions of the stratified psyche. The essays explore psychological perceptions, from practices of envisioning that mimic looking at a painting, photograph or projected light, to the comprehension of the palimpsestic complexities of language, memory and time. This collection is the first to see early twentieth-century physical, temporal and psychological strata interact across a range of canonical and popular authors, working in a variety of genres, from theatre to ghost stories, children’s literature to modernist magna opera.

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Author:   Eleanor Dobson (University of Birmingham, UK) ,  Gemma Banks (University of Birmingham, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138317765

ISBN 10:   1138317764
Pages:   182
Publication Date:   04 July 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table 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"

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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.

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