Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

Introduction: Tracing the fragments of modernity

pp 1-26

Part I - (De)Generating doubles: duality and the split personality in the prose writing of James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson and Oscar Wilde

pp 27-28

Introduction

pp 29-48

1 - Speaking and answering in the character of another: James Hogg's private memoirs

pp 49-67

2 - He, I say – I cannot say, I: Robert Louis Stevenson's strange case

pp 68-90

3 - The psychopathology of everyday narcissism: Oscar Wilde's picture

pp 91-116

Part II - The stripping of the halo: religion and identity in the poetry of Alfred Tennyson, James ‘B. V.’ Thomson and Gerard Manley Hopkins

pp 117-118

Introduction

pp 119-123

4 - A life of death: Alfred Tennyson's ‘St Simeon Stylites’

pp 124-136

5 - But what am I? Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam

pp 137-154

6 - All is vanity and nothingness: James ‘B. V.’ Thomson's haunted city

pp 155-174

7 - Dead letters: Gerard Manley Hopkins's ‘Terrible Sonnets’

pp 175-190

Part III - Infected ecstasy: addiction and modernity in the work of Thomas De Quincey, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti and Bram Stoker

pp 191-192

Introduction

pp 193-202

8 - A change in physical economy: Thomas De Quincey's confession

pp 203-225

9 - Coming like ghosts to trouble joy: Alfred Tennyson's ‘The Lotos Eaters’

pp 226-242

10 - Like honey to the throat but poison to the blood: Christina Rossetti's addictive market

pp 243-255

11 - The blood is the life: Bram Stoker's infected capital

pp 256-283

Conclusion: Ghost-script

pp 284-292

Notes

pp 293-322

Bibliography

pp 323-330

Index

pp 331-339