Victorian Hauntings Spectrality, Gothic, the Uncanny and Literature
Victorian Hauntings asks its reader to consider the following questions:What does it mean to read or write with ghosts, or to suggest that acts of reading or writing are haunted ? In what ways can authors in the nineteenth century be read so as to acknowl
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Victorian Hauntings Spectrality, Gothic, the Uncanny and Literature
Julian Wolfreys
© Julian Wolfreys 2002 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2002 by PALGRAVE Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE is the new global academic imprint of St. Martin’s Press LLC Scholarly and Reference Division and Palgrave Publishers Ltd (formerly Macmillan Press Ltd).
ISBN 978-0-333-92251-4 hardback ISBN 978-0-333-92252-1 ISBN 978-1-4039-1358-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4039-1358-6 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wolfreys, Julian, 1958– Victorian hauntings : spectrality, Gothic, the uncanny / Julian Wolfreys. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0-333-92251-4 — ISBN 978-0-333-92252-1 (pbk.) 1. English literature—19th century—History and criticism. 2. Supernatural in literature. 3. Ghost stories, English—History and criticism. 4. Gothic revival (Literature)—Great Britain. 5. Ghosts in literature. I. Title. PR468.S86 W65 2001 820.9'37'09034—dc21 10 11
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. . . yet when she spoke that name that named nothing, some impalpable but real thing within him responded as if to a summons, as if it had heard its name spoken. John Banville, Doctor Copernicus . . . come back, we are disghosted . . . James Joyce, Finnegans Wake But let’s not act as if we know what a phantom or a phantasm was . . . Jacques Derrida, The Rhetoric of Drugs
Abbreviations and a Note on References The abbreviations below are used throughout the book with reference to the principal nineteenth-century texts under discussion. Initial reference to all other cited works is provided in the endnotes, with appropriate abbreviations being given in the notes and used subsequently throughout the text when the work in question is cited throughout the chapters. Where a work is referred to more than once within a chapter, the author’s name and part of the title are given parenthetically. Charles Dickens CC A Christmas Carol, in The Christmas Books, ed. Ruth Glancy (Oxford: Oxford Universit
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