Labyrinths of deceit : culture, modernity and identity in the nineteenth century / Richard J. Walker.

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Introduction : Tracing the fragments of modernity -- Part I. (De)Generating doubles : duality and the split personality in the prose writing of James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson and Oscar Wilde -- Introduction -- Speaking and answering in the character of another : James Hogg's private memoirs -- He, I say, I cannot say, I : Robert Louis Stevenson's strange case -- The psychopathology of everyday narcissism : Oscar Wilde's picture -- Part II. The stripping of the halo : religion and identity in the poetry of Alfred Tennyson, James 'B.V.' Thomson and Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Introduction -- A life of death : Alfred Tennyson's 'St Simeon stylites' -- But what am I? Alfred Tennyson's In memoriam -- All in vanity and nothingness : James 'B.V.' Thomson's haunted city -- 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 Stoker -- Introduction -- A change in physical economy : Thomas De Quincey's confession -- Coming like ghosts to trouble joy : Alfred Tennyson's 'The Lotos eaters' -- Like honey to the throat but poison to the blood : Christina Rossetti's addictive market -- The blood is the life : Bram Stoker's infected capital -- Conclusion : Ghost-script.

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Prominent citizens in 19th-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.

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