Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture (eBook)

Julian Wolfreys is Professor of English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and author and editor of numerous books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, and literary theory. He is also the author of a novel, Silent Music (2014) and three volumes of poetry.  

Introduction

 

HAUNTED PREMISES

       The Chapter Before the First: Dwelling and the Uncanny

I     POEM, SUBJECT, PLACE

 English Losses: Thomas Hardy and the Memory of Wessex

 All You Need is Love? Edward Thomas, Apostrophizing the Other

II HAUNTED VICTORIOGRAPHIES, LATE-VICTORIAN & NEO-VICTORIAN

 ‘A parallel dimension’: The Haunted Streets and Spectral Poethics of the Neo-Victorian Novel

III RURAL HAUNTINGS, ENGLISH LOSSES, CULTURAL MEMORY

‘Can you tell me where my country lies?’: Re-membering, Re-presenting the Forgotten

‘Chewing through your Wimpey dreams’: Whimsy, Loss, and the ‘experience’ of the Rural in English Music and Art, 1966-1976

IV VOICES IN A LANDSCAPE

‘And for a moment’: Voicing the Landscape with Alice Oswald and John Burnside

‘It was suddenly hard winter’: Crossing the Field with John Burnside

Place and Displacement: Julian Barnes and the Haunted Self