Smith The ghost story 1840–1920

A cultural history
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84779-345-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Smith Andrew:
Andrew Smith is Professor of English Studies at the University of Glamorgan where he is Co-Director of the Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science (RCLAS)