Catherine Belsey

Tales of the Troubled Dead

Ghost Stories in Cultural History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Follow this vividly recounted ghostly trail through spooky stories from the past and present by Ann Radcliffe, Washington Irving, Emily Bronte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, M. R. James and Susan Hill.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 137mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9781474417372
• ISBN-10: 147441737X
• Artikelnr.: 55493790

Autorenporträt

Catherine Belsey was a critic and cultural historian. After an academic career at Cambridge, Cardiff and Swansea, she visited the University of Derby for discussions with the students. She lived in Cambridge and chaired a range of reading groups in the area on an occasional basis. (dec.February 2021)

Inhaltsangabe

Prelude. The Changing Shapes of Dorothy Dingley
1. A Dead King Walks
2. Haunted Pasts
3. The Ghost of Mrs Milton
4. Women in White
5. Dangerous Dead Women
6. Unquiet Gothic Castles
7. Spectres of Desire
8. All in the Mind?
9. Listening to Ghosts
10. Strange to Tell
Coda. Figurative Phantoms
Sources
Acknowledgements
Credits
Index