Alan Halsey’s The Ghost of a Skeleton Key has been added to the Criticism page of the website. The Ghost of a Skeleton Key presents a reading of Death’s Jest-Book’s alchemical and largely Paracelsian themes, arguing that its structure depends more upon an ‘as above so below’ schema than conventional narrative or plot. The argument draws on alchemical practice, mandrake lore, Erasmus Darwin’s poems, the anatomy debate, artificial creatures in fiction and political theory, the ‘last man’ in Romantic writing and Beddoes’ prefiguration of the Theatre of Cruelty.
Archive for May, 2013
New Criticism of Death’s Jest-Book
Tuesday, May 28th, 2013Meet Your Editorial Staff
Tuesday, May 28th, 2013Brief biographies of the editorial staff at Phantom-Wooer have been added to the Contact Us page of the website.