Sasha Handley

Visions of an Unseen World (eBook, ePUB)

Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth Century England

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the production, circulation and consumption of English ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This work examines a variety of mediums: ballads and chapbooks, newspapers, sermons, medical treatises and scientific journals, novels and plays. It relates the telling of ghost stories to changes associated with the Enlightenment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317315247
• Artikelnr.: 43977959

Autorenporträt

Sasha Handley

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Ghosts of Early Modern England
1: Restoration Hauntings
2: Printing the Preternatural in the Late Seventeenth Century
3: A New Canterbury Tale
4: Ghost Stories in the Periodical Press, c. 1700-c. 1750
5: Confessional Cultures and Ghost Beliefs, c. 1750-c. 1800
6: Landscapes of Belief and Everyday Life in Late Eighteenth-Century England
Conclusion