Ghostwriting Modernism.(Book Review)

From: Yearbook of English Studies | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Ghostwriting Modernism. By HELEN SWORD. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 2002. xiii + 212 pp. 28.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk 12.95 [pounds sterling]). ISBN: 0-8014-3699-0 (pbk 0-8014-8775-7).

Observing that the Victorian fascination with popular spiritualism extended well into the twentieth century, Helen Sword examines here the role of 'ghostwriting', defined most broadly, in the development of modernism. Interaction with the dead was a valuable plot device utilized in a modern literature obsessed with the weight of artistic precedent, but it also emerges here ...

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