The double in nineteenth-century fiction : the shadow life / John Herdman.

Author/creator Herdman, John, 1941-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : St. Martin's Press, 1991.
Descriptionxi, 174 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents The psychological and theological background -- The emergence and development of the double theme -- Terror, pursuit and shadows -- The Gothic romance -- William Godwin and Charles Brockden Brown -- Chamisso and Andersen - - E. T. A. Hoffmann -- 'The sandman' -- The Devil's elixirs -- James Hogg -- Edgar Allan Poe -- The Russian Double -- Gogol, and Dostoevsky's The double -- The later Dostoevsky -- The double in decline -- R. L. Stevenson -- Oscar Wilde -- Kipling, Maupassant and Chekhov -- Into Psychology.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 169-170) and index.
LCCN 90042641
ISBN0312053118

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PN3500 .H47 1990 ✔ Available Place Hold