The ghost story 1840-1920 : a cultural history / Andrew Smith
- Author:
- Smith, Andrew
- Published:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2010.
- Physical Description:
- [ix], 202 pages ; 24 cm
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780719074462 (hbk.)
0719074460 (hbk.) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references.
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