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    Spectrality in Modernist Fiction by Ross, Stephen;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 13 July 2023

    • ISBN 9780192888358
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages206 pages
    • Size 240x160x16 mm
    • Weight 444 g
    • Language English
    • 470

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    Short description:

    Spectrality in Modernist Fiction argues that key modernist writers, chiefly Conrad, Forster, Butts, and Bowen, use spectral rhetoric to tackle problems of sex and sexuality, revolution, imperialism, capitalism, and desire all through complicated ethical engagements.

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    Long description:

    Spectrality in Modernist Fiction argues that key modernist writers, chiefly Conrad, Forster, Butts, and Bowen, use spectral rhetoric to tackle problems of sex and sexuality, revolution, imperialism, capitalism, and desire all through complicated ethical engagements. These engagements invariably come packaged in, and are shaped by, the language of spectrality. In its capacity to articulate a particular sort of relationship between the past, the present and the future, the spectral concerns the basic question of how to proceed, how to live with-maybe even address-ethical indeterminacy. Whether their spectral rhetoric traces the logics of capitalist possession (Conrad), queer "friendship" and paganized Christianity (Forster), regressive politics haunted by historical traumas (Butts), or the devious passages of perverse desire (Bowen), these writers locate something like hope in their ghosts. The ethical and political impasses they chart through their spectral rhetoric are not final, but temporary, and the drive to overcome them constitutes a tensile optimism.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    A Man Possessed: Conrad's Spectral Ethics
    "What Love Looks Like in Public": Ghosts, Friends, and Justice in Forster
    Wrestling with Ghosts: Butts, History, and Ethics
    Elizabeth Bowen's "Uncertain Gothic"
    Works Cited

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