Henry James and the Ghostly
Henry James and the Ghostly
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USDGhosts - dead and yet alive, absent and yet present - are able to cross the borders of experience; in literature their evocation has been enduringly important. In Henry James and the Ghostly Dr Lustig explores the ghost stories that James produced throughout his career and relates them to the great dynamic forces which may well represent James's most original contribution to literature. The centrepiece of the book is a detailed analysis of James's classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw, set in the context of work by earlier Victorian writers, and developments in James's own treatment of the ghostly. Dr Lustig evaluates the ghostly charge attached to the many scenes in James's novels and tales which turn on thresholds, perspectives, windows and doors, and the many moments when James's characters seem almost to encounter the margins of the texts which enclose them.
- The most comprehensive treatment of the theme of the ghostly in James's work
- Innovative and fresh readings of James's full-length fiction and short stories
- Insight into the development of the ghostly as a significant theme in nineteenth-century literature
Product details
March 2011Paperback
9780521131599
332 pages
229 × 152 × 19 mm
0.48kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The threshold
- 2. The chamber of consciousness
- 3. The Turn of the Screw
- 4. The haunted chamber
- Postscript
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
