Visions of an Unseen World - Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth Century England

A study of the production, circulation and consumption of English ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This work examines a variety of mediums: ballads and chapbooks, newspapers, sermons, medical treatises and scientific journals, novels and plays. It relates the telling of ghost stories to changes associated with the Enlightenment.

Table des matières

Introduction: The Ghosts of Early Modern England; 1: Restoration Hauntings; 2: Printing the Preternatural in the Late Seventeenth Century; 3: A New Canterbury Tale; 4: Ghost Stories in the Periodical Press, c. 1700–c. 1750; 5: Confessional Cultures and Ghost Beliefs, c. 1750–c. 1800; 6: Landscapes of Belief and Everyday Life in Late Eighteenth-Century England; Conclusion

A propos de l'auteur

Sasha Handley

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Sasha Handley
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 21.01.2016
• EAN: 9781138663466
• ISBN: 978-1-138-66346-6
• Pages: 304
• Thème: Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire; FICTION / Occult & Supernatural, Horror & ghost stories, Literary studies: general, Horror and supernatural fiction, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, FICTION / Horror / General