The Ghost Story 1840-1920 : a cultural history.
The Ghost Story 1840-1920: A Cultural History examines the British ghost story within the political contexts of the long nineteenth century. By relating the ghost story to economic, national, colonial and gendered contexts' it provides a critical re-evaluation of the period. The conjuring of a...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press
2010.
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| Online adgang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt155jc6t |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Seeing the spectre: an economic theory of the ghost story; 2 Dickens's spectres: sight, money, and reading the ghost story; 3 Money and machines: Wilkie Collins's ghosts; 4 Love, money, and history: the female ghost story; 5 Reading ghosts and reading texts: spiritualism; 6 Haunted houses and history: Henry James's Anglo-American ghosts; 7 Colonial ghosts: mimicry, history, and laughter; 8 M.R. James's Gothic revival; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.