The Ghost Story 1840 -1920

en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2012

The Ghost Story 1840-1920: A Cultural History is the first book length analysis of the British ghost story in over thirty years. It includes readings of the economic, national, colonial, and gender contexts of the ghost story and provides a new and important critical re-evaluation of writers including Dickens, Collins, Henry James, and M.R. James.

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ISBN-13: 9780719087868
ISBN-10: 0719087864
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Cuprins

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

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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 political discourse of spectrality during the ninete

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