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1 online resource (vi, 339 pages) |
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Liverpool English texts and studies ; 44 |
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Liverpool English texts and studies ; 44.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-330) and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- Speaking and answering in the character of another : James Hogg's private memoirs -- He, I say, I cannot say, I : Robert Louis Stevenson's strange case -- 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 -- A life of death : Alfred Tennyson's 'St Simeon stylites' -- But what am I? Alfred Tennyson's In memoriam -- All in vanity and nothingness : James 'B.V.' Thomson's haunted city -- 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 -- A change in physical economy : Thomas De Quincey's confession -- Coming like ghosts to trouble joy : Alfred Tennyson's 'The Lotos eaters' -- Like honey to the throat but poison to the blood : Christina Rossetti's addictive market -- The blood is the life : Bram Stoker's infected capital -- Conclusion : Ghost-script. |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
Prominent citizens in 19th-century England believed themselves to be living in a time of unstoppable progress. Yet running just beneath Victorian triumphalism were strong undercurrents of chaos and uncertainty. |
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Social problems in literature.
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Littérature anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
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Identité dans la littérature.
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Littérature et société -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
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Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature.
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Social & cultural history.
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History -- Europe -- Great Britain -- Victorian Era (1837-1901)
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History -- Social History.
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Literary Criticism.
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English literature
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
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Literature and society
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Social problems in literature
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Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP
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1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| In: |
Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
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OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Walker, Richard J., 1967- Labyrinths of deceit. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2007 (OCoLC)58554344 |
| ISBN |
9781846315404 (electronic bk.) |
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1846315409 (electronic bk.) |
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9780853238492 (electronic bk.) |
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0853238499 (electronic bk.) |
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JSTOR purchased |
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AU@ 000062488684 |
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CHNEW 001035478 |
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CHVBK 556239407 |
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AU@ 000071215994 |
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