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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.