The Ghost Story 1840-1920 : a cultural history.

By:

Smith, Andrew, 1964- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (225 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781847793454
1847793452
9781781700006
1781700001
9780719074462
0719074460

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ghost Story 1840-1920 : A cultural history.DDC classification:

823.0873309

LOC classification:

PR830.G45

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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 nineteenth century enables a culturally sensitive reconsideration of the work of writers including Dickens, Collins, Charlotte Riddell, Vernon Lee, May Sinclair, Kipling, Le Fanu, Henry James and M.R. James. Additionally, a chapter on the interpretation of sp.

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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 nineteenth century enables a culturally sensitive reconsideration of the work of writers including Dickens, Collins, Charlotte Riddell, Vernon Lee, May Sinclair, Kipling, Le Fanu, Henry James and M.R. James. Additionally, a chapter on the interpretation of sp.