Ghost Story 1840-1920 - A Cultural History

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Smith is an aircraft structure technician, writer, designer, and illustrator. He has a special interest in spiritual connectivity and the wide-ranging forces of harmony, wisdom, patience, prudence, and discipline. He lives in Ottawa with his family. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Seeing the Spectre: an economic theory of the Ghost Story2. 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 ConclusionBibliography

About the author

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)

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Smith, Andrew W. M. Smith
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2012
• EAN: 9780719087868
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8786-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Print on demand
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies