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Autore: | Smith Andrew <1964-> |
Titolo: | The ghost story, 1840-1920 [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history / / Andrew Smith |
Pubblicazione: | Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2010 |
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.: | 9910791952503321 |
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