Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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
- Part II The stripping of the halo: religion and identity in the poetry of Alfred Tennyson, James ‘B. V.’ Thomson and Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Part III Infected ecstasy: addiction and modernity in the work of Thomas De Quincey, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti and Bram Stoker
- Conclusion: Ghost-script
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Notes
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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
- Part II The stripping of the halo: religion and identity in the poetry of Alfred Tennyson, James ‘B. V.’ Thomson and Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Part III Infected ecstasy: addiction and modernity in the work of Thomas De Quincey, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti and Bram Stoker
- Conclusion: Ghost-script
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Labyrinths of DeceitCulture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth Century, pp. 293 - 322Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2008