Labyrinths of deceit: culture, modernity and identity in the nineteenth century

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.

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.