The Victorian ghost story : an Edinburgh companion / edited by Andrew Smith.
| Other author | Smith, Andrew, 1964- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025] |
| Description | vii, 406 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Edinburgh companions to the Gothic Edinburgh companions to the gothic. ^A1287930 |
| Abstract | The Victorian Ghost Story: An Edinburgh Companion invites readers to interrogate the multi-layered, multi-vocal conversations that occur within the Victorian ghost story. Its twenty-four chapters provide a historical overview of the development of the ghost story and explore it in light of the 'new' contexts of the 1800s, including mechanisation, imperialism, Romanticism and religion. As a much-needed survey of critical work on the ghost story, it features detailed analysis of major Victorian writers such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Riddell and Henry James and it examines the places haunted by Victorian ghosts: haunted houses but also haunted museums, Fells, pyramids and seascapes. By engaging with ecocriticism, race, colonialism, class and gender, this interdisciplinary Companion constitutes a significant scholarly contribution on the Victorian ghost story and how it relates to a broader Gothic tradition. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781399521529 |
| ISBN | 9781399521499 |
| ISBN | 1399521497 hardcover |
| ISBN | ePub ebook |
| ISBN | PDF ebook |
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