Helen Sword
Ghostwriting Modernism
- ISBN 13:
- 9780801487750
- author:
- Helen Sword
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2002
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions:
- 23.11 x 15.14 x 1.45 centimetres
- Genre:
- Health & Wellbeing, Mind, Body & Spirit, Spiritualism,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Ghostwriting Modernism by Helen Sword explores the persistence of spiritualism into the twentieth century and its influence on modernist literature. Sword examines the relationship between mediumistic discourse and modernist literary aesthetics, tracing the forms of mediumship most closely allied with writing and the thematic and aesthetic alliances between popular spiritualism and modernist literature. The book begins with a historical review of popular spiritualism's roots in nineteenth-century literary culture, before discussing its influence on authors such as James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, H.D., James Merrill, Sylvia Plath, and Ted Hughes. Sword argues that modernists were drawn to the ontological shiftiness and blurring of cultural boundaries offered by spiritualism. Through compelling readings of these works, Sword offers a nuanced understanding of the complex relationship between spiritualism and modernist literature, revealing how this often-overlooked aspect of modernist culture continues to shape our understanding of the period.
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