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The Late Victorian Gothic: Mental Science, the Uncanny, and Scenes of Writing
Ist Teil von
Victorian Studies, 2013, Vol.55 (2), p.350
Ort / Verlag
Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
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Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
A good proportion of this work ha s been done before, as Grimes mostly dut ifully acknowledges while offering slight shifts of emphasis or polite disag reement s. Because of t his, i wasn't entirely convinced t hat another reading of Henr y James's In the Cage (1898) with Rudyard Kipling's "Wireless" (1902) was needed, given how carefully thurschwell and others have teased out the imbrication of subjectivity, wireless communication, and telegraphy. if Grimes claims to give greater focus to the technological, her reading does not extend to the histories of communication that have thoroughly covered this spooky hook-up, whether Peters's Speaking into the Air (1999) or Jeffrey Sconce's Haunted Media (2000). the radical anti-subjectivist implications of Friedrich Kittler's media theory are not rigorously explored, yet these are difficult to reconcile with the default gothic Freudianism that gently envelops the readings in the book. the paradoxes of Arthur Conan Doyle's commitment both to the ratiocination of Sherlock Holmes and to spiritualism, the cultural pervasion of trilbymania in the 1890s, the tensions in lee's writing, and the conflicting tugs of agency and passive sensitivity in the new woman have all been exhaustively explored elsewhere. there is nothing wrong with how Grimes reads and exposits these fields: the work is often lucid, smart, and concise.