The ghost story, 1840-1920 : a cultural history / / Andrew Smith
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| Autore: |
Smith Andrew <1964->
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| Titolo: |
The ghost story, 1840-1920 : a cultural history / / Andrew Smith
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| Pubblicazione: | Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823.0873309 |
| Soggetto topico: | Ghost stories, English - History and criticism |
| Soggetto non controllato: | British ghost story |
| Charlotte Riddell | |
| Henry James | |
| May Sinclair | |
| Vernon Lee | |
| long nineteenth century | |
| spectral language | |
| spectrality | |
| spirit messages | |
| textual analysis | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 9780719074462; 9780719074462; 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 spi |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The ghost story, 1840-1920 |
| ISBN: | 1-78170-000-1 |
| 1-84779-345-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814278403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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