Excavating Modernity: Physical, Temporal and Psychological Strata in Literature, 1900-1930

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This book scrutinizes physical, temporal and psychological strata across early twentieth-century literature, focusing on geological and archaeological tropes and conceptions of the stratified psyche. The essays explore psychological perceptions, from practices of envisioning that mimic looking at a painting, photograph or projected light, to the comprehension of the palimpsestic complexities of language, memory and time. This collection is the first to see early twentieth-century physical, temporal and psychological strata interact across a range of canonical and popular authors, working in a variety of genres, from theatre to ghost stories, children’s literature to modernist magna opera.
This book scrutinizes physical, temporal and psychological strata across early twentieth-century literature, focusing on geological and archaeological tropes and conceptions of the stratified psyche. The essays explore psychological perceptions, from practices of envisioning that mimic looking at...

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Eleanor Dobson is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham.

Gemma Banks is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Birmingham.

Eleanor Dobson is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham. Gemma Banks is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Birmingham.

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