This book scrutinizes physical, temporal and psychological strata across early twentieth-century literature, focusing on geological and archaeological tropes and conceptions of the stratified psyche. The essays explore psychological perceptions, from practices of envisioning that mimic looking at a painting, photograph or projected light, to the comprehension of the palimpsestic complexities of language, memory and time. This collection is the first to see early twentieth-century physical, temporal and psychological strata interact across a range of canonical and popular authors, working in a variety of genres, from theatre to ghost stories, childrens literature to modernist magna opera.
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 Hardys 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 Joyces Ulysses Annalisa Federici
9.
Husserls Theory of Image Consciousness and Virginia Woolfs To the
Lighthouse Xavier Le Brun
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.
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