How Long to Read Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism

How Long Does it Take to Read Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 10 minutes to read Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism by Luke Thurston

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary response to the technological and psychological disturbances that marked the end of the Victorian era. Linking little-studied authors like M. R. James and May Sinclair to such canonical figures as Dickens, Henry James, Woolf, and Joyce, Thurston argues that the literary ghost should be seen as no mere relic of gothic style but as a portal of discovery, an opening onto the central modernist problem of...

How long is Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism?

Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism by Luke Thurston is 186 pages long, and a total of 47,616 words.

This makes it 63% the length of the average book. It also has 58% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism aloud.

What Reading Level is Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism?

Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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