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Article: Ghostwriting Modernism.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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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 as a valuable trope by which one can read all inspiration. Beyond these general concerns, ...