Description
Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade Review‘Makes an important contribution to the field of Victorian cultural studies’
Simon Hay, Connecticut College, Victorian Studies, Summer 2012
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
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
