Labyrinths of deceit
| Titel: | Labyrinths of deceit : culture, modernity and identity in the nineteenth century / Richard J. Walker |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, [2019] |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 339 Seiten) |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 0853238499 ; 1846315409 ; 9780853238492 ; 9781846315404 |
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- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Tracing the fragments of modernity
- Part I
- (De) Generating doubles: duality and the split personality in the prose writing of James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson and Oscar Wilde
- Introduction
- 1
- Speaking and answering in the character of another: James Hogg's private memoirs
- 2
- He, I say - I cannot say, I: Robert Louis Stevenson's strange case
- 3
- The psychopathology of everyday narcissism: Oscar Wilde's picture
- Part II
- The stripping of the halo: religion and identity in the poetry of Alfred Tennyson, James 'B. V.' Thomson and Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Introduction
- 4
- A life of death: Alfred Tennyson's 'St Simeon Stylites'
- 5
- But what am I? Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam
- 6
- All is vanity and nothingness: James 'B. V.' Thomson's haunted city
- 7
- Dead letters: Gerard Manley Hopkins's 'Terrible Sonnets'
- Part III
- Infected ecstasy: addiction and modernity in the work of Thomas De Quincey, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti and Bram Stoker
- Introduction
- 8
- A change in physical economy: Thomas De Quincey's confession
- 9
- Coming like ghosts to trouble joy: Alfred Tennyson's 'The Lotos Eaters'
- 10
- 'Like honey to the throat but poison to the blood: Christina Rossetti's addictive market
- 11
- The blood is the life: Bram Stoker's infected capital
- Conclusion: Ghost-script
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
