Modernist Ghost Story - Einzelansicht

Diese Veranstaltung findet erst im Sommersemester 2018 statt.

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With the emergence of psychoanalysis in the early twentieth century, the fantastic genre shifted its focus. Nevertheless, the ghost story remained a popular genre in the transtion from late Victorian to Modernist culture. This seminar will look at transitional and modernist writers like Henry James, Edith Wharton, May Sinclair, Virginia Woolf, Vernon Lee, Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde. We will analyse how their different approaches to the genre interact with psychological, medical, anthropological and colonial discourses.