Tales of the Troubled Dead : : Ghost Stories in Cultural History / / Catherine Belsey.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 10 B/W illustrations |
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Table of 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