This book is about haunting in modernist literature. Offering an extended and
textually-sensitive reading of modernist spectrality that has yet to be undertaken by scholars
of either haunting or modernism it provides a fresh reconceptualization of modernist haunting
by synthesizing recent critical work in the fields of haunting studies Gothic modernisms and
mourning modernisms. The chapters read the form and function of the ghostly as it appears in
the work of a constellation of important modernist contributors including T. S. Eliot
Virginia Woolf D. H. Lawrence Elizabeth Bowen Wyndham Lewis Richard Aldington and Ford
Madox Ford. It is of particular significance to scholars and students in a wide range of fields
of study including modernism literary theory and the Gothic.
