Excavating Modernity

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.

• Introduction Eleanor Dobson and Gemma Banks 1. Excavating the Psyche as Constructed by Pre-Freudian Pioneers George M. Johnson 2. "As a Burnt Circle": Thomas Hardy’s Visible Voices Holly Corfield Carr 3. The Dead City: Eleonora Duse and the Archaeology of the Soul Maria Pia Pagani 4. Excavating Children: Archaeological Imagination and Time Slip in the Early 1900s Virginia Zimmerman 5. The Sphinx at the Séance: Literature, Spiritualism and Psycho-Archaeology Eleanor Dobson 6. The "Carefully-Constructed Screen": Phantasmagorical Strata in the Ghost Stories of M.R. James Craig Wallace 7. Vernon Lee: Excavating The Spirit of Rome Sally Blackburn 8. Mind Strata: Layers of Consciousness in James Joyce’s Ulysses Annalisa Federici 9. Husserl’s Theory of Image Consciousness and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse Xavier Le Brun