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dc.identifier	ECF_article_4845
dc.title	Realism and the Supernatural in Ghost Stories of the Fin de Siècle
dc.contributor.author	Freeman Nick
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/english-literature/2020/1/realism-and-the-supernatural-in-ghost-stories-of-t/
dc.description.abstract	This article examines the uses of realism in fin-de-siècle ghost stories by Vernon Lee, Ella D’Arcy, Rudyard Kipling, and Gertrude Atherton, It argues that forms of realist practice were central to the sophistication of these stories, and draws connections between their use in supernatural fiction and the work of modernists such as Joseph Conrad. Examining works from the late 1880s to 1905, it maintains that the dismissal of realism by modernists such as Woolf underestimated its importance and its versatility, and that the ghost story’s importance as a vehicle for literary experiment is insufficiently acknowledged.
dc.relation.ispartof	English Literature
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 7 \| December 2020
dc.issued	2020-12-21
dc.dateAccepted	2020-12-12
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-10-16
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2420-823X
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2020/01/006
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Ghost Story
dc.subject	Ghost Story
dc.subject	Henry James
dc.subject	Henry James
dc.subject	Joseph Conrad
dc.subject	Joseph Conrad
dc.subject	Realism
dc.subject	Realism
dc.subject	Ruyard Kipling
dc.subject	Ruyard Kipling
dc.subject	Supernatural
dc.subject	Supernatural
dc.subject	Virginia Woolf
dc.subject	Virginia Woolf

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Realism and the Supernatural in Ghost Stories of the Fin de Siècle

Nick Freeman University of Loughborough, UK

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This article examines the uses of realism in fin-de-siècle ghost stories by Vernon Lee, Ella D’Arcy, Rudyard Kipling, and Gertrude Atherton, It argues that forms of realist practice were central to the sophistication of these stories, and draws connections between their use in supernatural fiction and the work of modernists such as Joseph Conrad. Examining works from the late 1880s to 1905, it maintains that the dismissal of realism by modernists such as Woolf underestimated its importance and its versatility, and that the ghost story’s importance as a vehicle for literary experiment is insufficiently acknowledged.

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Dec. 21, 2020

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Dec. 12, 2020

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Oct. 16, 2020

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Keywords: Realism • Joseph Conrad • Ruyard Kipling • Supernatural • Virginia Woolf • Henry James • Ghost Story

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