| #3217576 in Books | Julian Wolfreys | 2001-12-07 | 2001-11-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.44 x5.50l,.55 | File type: PDF | 175 pages | Victorian Hauntings||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By michelle Bohn|Excellent!|12 of 19 people found the following review helpful.| Impenetrable and obtuse|By Wolfsegg|Mr. Wolfrey's style is clearly indebted to the late Derrida. I have tried to finish this book on several different occasions, and each time I take it up, I am repulsed by Wolfrey's intentional obscura||
“Victorian Hauntings should bring a new tone to Victorian Studies; this clever book is quite perfect.” ——Jean Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania||“You'd have to be dead to know more about ghosts than Julian Wolfreys.&r
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 acknowledge the various phantom effects which return within their texts ? In what ways do the traces of such " ghost writing " surface in the works of Dickens,Tennyson,Eliot and Hardy ? How does the work of spectrality, rev...
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