Romantic Shades and Shadows

by Susan J Wolfson and Susan J. Wolfson

Haunting's consequences for the literary imagination.

Reading is a weirdly phantasmic trade: animating words to revive absent voices, rehearing the past, fantasizing a future. In Romantic Shades and Shadows, Susan J. Wolfson explores spectral language, formations, and sensations, defining an apparitional poetics in the finely grained textures of writing and their effects on present reading.

Framed by an introductory chapter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421425548
• ISBN13: 9781421425542
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"