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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Prominent citizens in nineteenth-century England believed themselves to be living in a time of unstoppable progress. Yet running just beneath Victorian triumphalism were strong undercurrents of chaos and uncertainty. Richard Walker plumbs the depths of those currents in order to present an alternative history of nineteenth-century society. Mining literary and philosophical works of the period, Walker explores the crisis of identity that beset nineteenth-century thinkers and how that crisis revealed itself in portrayals of addiction, split personalities, and religious mania. Victorian England will never look the same.
Richard J. Walker is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Central Lancashire.
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Tracing the fragments of modernityPart I: (De)Generating doubles: duality and the split personality in the prose writing of James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson and Oscar WildeIntroduction1 Speaking and answering in the character of another: James Hogg’s private memoirs2 He, I say – I cannot say, I: Robert Louis Stevenson’s strange case3 The psychopathology of everyday narcissism: Oscar Wilde’s picturePart II: The stripping of the halo: religion and identity in the poetry of Alfred Tennyson, James ‘B. V.’ Thomson and Gerard Manley HopkinsIntroduction4 A life of death: Alfred Tennyson’s ‘St Simeon Stylites’5 But what am I? Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam6 All is vanity and nothingness: James ‘B. V.’ Thomson’s haunted city7 Dead letters: Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ‘Terrible Sonnets’Part III: Infected ecstasy: addiction and modernity in the work of Thomas De Quincey, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti and Bram StokerIntroduction8 A change in physical economy: Thomas De Quincey’s confession9 Coming like ghosts to trouble joy: Alfred Tennyson’s ‘The Lotos Eaters’10 ‘Like honey to the throat but poison to the blood: Christina Rossetti’s addictive market11 The blood is the life: Bram Stoker’s infected capitalConclusion: Ghost-scriptNotesBibliographyIndex
