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Tales of the Troubled Dead : Ghost Stories in Cultural History / Catherine Belsey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) : 10 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474417365
  • 9781474417389
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.38733 23
LOC classification:
  • PN3435 .B39 2019
  • PN3435 .B39 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prelude. The Changing Shapes of Dorothy Dingley -- 1. A Dead King Walks -- 2. Haunted Pasts -- 3. The Ghost of Mrs Milton -- 4. Women in White -- 5. Dangerous Dead Women -- 6. Unquiet Gothic Castles -- 7. Spectres of Desire -- 8. All in the Mind? -- 9. Listening to Ghosts -- 10. Strange to Tell -- Coda. Figurative Phantoms -- Sources -- Acknowledgements -- Credits -- Index
Summary: Considers the ways ghost stories appeal to our uneasy relationship with conventional good senseWhat do they want, the ghosts that, even in the age of science, still haunt our storytelling? Catherine Belsey’s answer to the question traces Gothic writing and tales of the uncanny from the ancient past to the present – from Homer and the Icelandic sagas to Lincoln in the Bardo. Taking Shakespeare’s Ghost in Hamlet as a turning point in the history of the genre, she uncovers the old stories the play relies on, as well as its influence on later writing. This ghostly trail is vividly charted through accredited records of apparitions and fiction by such writers as Ann Radcliffe, Washington Irving, Emily Brontë, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, M. R. James and Susan Hill. In recent blockbusting movies, too, ghost stories bring us fragments of news from the unknown.Traces examples of ghost stories from Homer to the present dayDescribes the aspects of storytelling designed to involve readersIncludes stories of attested apparitions, as well as fiction by a wide range of both canonical and popular authors
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prelude. The Changing Shapes of Dorothy Dingley -- 1. A Dead King Walks -- 2. Haunted Pasts -- 3. The Ghost of Mrs Milton -- 4. Women in White -- 5. Dangerous Dead Women -- 6. Unquiet Gothic Castles -- 7. Spectres of Desire -- 8. All in the Mind? -- 9. Listening to Ghosts -- 10. Strange to Tell -- Coda. Figurative Phantoms -- Sources -- Acknowledgements -- Credits -- Index

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Considers the ways ghost stories appeal to our uneasy relationship with conventional good senseWhat do they want, the ghosts that, even in the age of science, still haunt our storytelling? Catherine Belsey’s answer to the question traces Gothic writing and tales of the uncanny from the ancient past to the present – from Homer and the Icelandic sagas to Lincoln in the Bardo. Taking Shakespeare’s Ghost in Hamlet as a turning point in the history of the genre, she uncovers the old stories the play relies on, as well as its influence on later writing. This ghostly trail is vividly charted through accredited records of apparitions and fiction by such writers as Ann Radcliffe, Washington Irving, Emily Brontë, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, M. R. James and Susan Hill. In recent blockbusting movies, too, ghost stories bring us fragments of news from the unknown.Traces examples of ghost stories from Homer to the present dayDescribes the aspects of storytelling designed to involve readersIncludes stories of attested apparitions, as well as fiction by a wide range of both canonical and popular authors

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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