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Zusatztext "An excellent introduction and overview of critical approaches to a genre often as odd as its spectral denizens. These essays demonstrate that the ubiquity of the ghost story is! in part! what makes the genre compelling! almost a riddle: ghosts are everywhere and nowhere."- Aran Ruth! Supernatural Studies Association Informationen zum Autor Scott Brewster is Reader in English at the University of Lincoln, UK. He has published widely on the Gothic, including essays on M. R. James and on the contemporary ghost film, and on modern poetry and Irish Literature. He participated in the British Library’s Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination exhibition in autumn 2014. Luke Thurston is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at Aberystwyth University, UK and Director of the David Jones Centre. He has published widely on Joyce, modernist literature, and psychoanalysis. Zusammenfassung The Handbook to the Ghost Story sets out to survey and significantly extend a new field of criticism which has been taking shape over recent years, centring on the ghost story and bringing together a vast range of interpretive methods and theoretical perspectives. The main task of the volume is to properly situate the genre within historical and contemporary literary cultures across the globe, and to explore its significance within wider literary contexts as well as those of the supernatural. The Handbook offers the most significant contribution to this new critical field to date, assembling some of its leading scholars to examine the key contexts and issues required for understanding the emergence and development of the ghost story. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Scott Brewster and Luke Thurston Section I. Ghostly Origins Chapter 1. "Gothic and Romantic Ghosts in Novels, Dramas, and the Chapbook" Diane Long Hoeveler Chapter 2. The Ghost Story and the Victorian Literary Marketplace Anthony Mandal Chapter 3. The Ghost Story and Science Sarah Bissell Chapter 4. Oscar Wilde in the Fourth Dimension: Ghosts, Geometry and the Victorian Crisis of Meaning Jarlath Killeen Chapter 5. Ghost Stories and Sensation Fiction Brittany Roberts Chapter 6. Women Writers and Ghost Stories Melissa Edmundson Chapter 7. The Victorian Ghost Story and the Invention of Christmas Dewi Evans Section II. Vital Spirits Chapter 8. Playful spirits: Charles Dickens and the Ghost Story Claire Wood Chapter 9. J. Sheridan Le Fanu Alison Milbank Chapter 10. Haunting Memories: Death, Mourning, and Memory in the Ghost Stories of Margaret Oliphant Elizabeth McCarthy Chapter 11. Algernon Blackwood S. T. Joshi Chapter 12. Conan Doyle’s Sceptical Reader: Ghost Stories, Science and Spiritualism Kevin Mills Chapter 13. M. R. James Darryl Jones Chapter 14. Jamesian Ghosts: Romance and History T. J. Lustig Chapter 15. Vernon Lee Oliver Tearle Chapter 16. "A Roaring and Discontinuous Universe": Edith Wharton’s Modern Hauntings Emily Coit Chapter 17. "German has a word for the total effect": Robert Aickman’s Strange Stories Timothy Jones Section III. Haunted Nations Chapter 18. The English Ghost Story David Punter Chapter 19. The Ghost Story in Scotland Timothy C. Baker Cha...
