Andrew Smith

The ghost story 1840-1920

A cultural history

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 334g
• ISBN-13: 9780719087868
• ISBN-10: 0719087864
• Artikelnr.: 34743594

Autorenporträt

Andrew Smith is an aircraft structure technician, writer, designer, and illustrator. He has a special interest in spiritual connectivity and the wide-ranging forces of harmony, wisdom, patience, prudence, and discipline. He lives in Ottawa with his family.

Inhaltsangabe

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