Ghostwriting Modernism: Transnationalism and Sri Lanka's Migrant Housemaids

by Helen Sword

Book Overview

Spiritualism is often dismissed by literary critics and historians as merely a Victorian fad. Helen Sword demonstrates that it continued to flourish well into the twentieth century and seeks to explain why. Literary modernism, she maintains, is replete with ghosts and spirits. In Ghostwriting Modernism she explores spiritualism's striking persistence and what she calls "the vexed relationship between mediumistic discourse and modernist literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801487757
• ISBN13: 9780801487750
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"