Overview

The Handbook to the Ghost Story sets out to survey and significantly extend a new field of criticism which has been taking shape over recent years, centring on the ghost story and bringing together a vast range of interpretive methods and theoretical perspectives. The main task of the volume is to properly situate the genre within historical and contemporary literary cultures across the globe, and to explore its significance within wider literary contexts as well as those of the supernatural. The Handbook offers the most significant contribution to this new critical field to date, assembling some of its leading scholars to examine the key contexts and issues required for understanding the emergence and development of the ghost story.

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Author:   Scott Brewster ,  Luke Thurston
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.108kg
ISBN:  

9781138184763

ISBN 10:   1138184764
Pages:   488
Publication Date:   10 November 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Scott Brewster and Luke Thurston Section I. Ghostly Origins Chapter 1. ""Gothic and Romantic Ghosts in Novels, Dramas, and the Chapbook"" Diane Long Hoeveler Chapter 2. The Ghost Story and the Victorian Literary Marketplace Anthony Mandal Chapter 3. The Ghost Story and Science Sarah Bissell Chapter 4. Oscar Wilde in the Fourth Dimension: Ghosts, Geometry and the Victorian Crisis of Meaning Jarlath Killeen Chapter 5. Ghost Stories and Sensation Fiction Brittany Roberts Chapter 6. Women Writers and Ghost Stories Melissa Edmundson Chapter 7. The Victorian Ghost Story and the Invention of Christmas Dewi Evans Section II. Vital Spirits Chapter 8. Playful spirits: Charles Dickens and the Ghost Story Claire Wood Chapter 9. J. Sheridan Le Fanu Alison Milbank Chapter 10. Haunting Memories: Death, Mourning, and Memory in the Ghost Stories of Margaret Oliphant Elizabeth McCarthy Chapter 11. Algernon Blackwood S. T. Joshi Chapter 12. Conan Doyle’s Sceptical Reader: Ghost Stories, Science and Spiritualism Kevin Mills Chapter 13. M. R. James Darryl Jones Chapter 14. Jamesian Ghosts: Romance and History T. J. Lustig Chapter 15. Vernon Lee Oliver Tearle Chapter 16. ""A Roaring and Discontinuous Universe"": Edith Wharton’s Modern Hauntings Emily Coit Chapter 17. ""German has a word for the total effect"": Robert Aickman’s Strange Stories Timothy Jones Section III. Haunted Nations Chapter 18. The English Ghost Story David Punter Chapter 19. The Ghost Story in Scotland Timothy C. Baker Chapter 20. Haunted Wales Jane Aaron Chapter 21. The American Ghost Story Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Chapter 22. ‘If You Build It, They Will Come’: The Strange Case of the English-Canadian Ghost Story Cynthia Sugars Chapter 23. The Ghost and the Darkness: Creole Hauntings in Caribbean Literature Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert Chapter 24. The Latin American Ghost Story Enrique Ajuria Ibarra Chapter 25. ""There was more in this darkness"": The New Zealand Ghost Story Erin Mercer Chapter 26. Australian Ghost Fiction David Ellison and Penelope Hone Chapter 27. Strange Ghosts: Asian Reconfigurations of the Chinese Ghost Story Katarzyna Ancuta Chapter 28. Indian Ghosts: A Love Affair Tabish Khair Chapter 29. Shades of Dissent: Notes on Haunting in South African Literary History Rebecca Duncan Section IV. Haunting Sites Chapter 30. Haunted Landscapes Lucie Armitt Chapter 31. Transport and Trauma: Uncanny Modernities Ralph Harrington Chapter 32. Ghost Walking Scott Brewster Chapter 33. The Ghosts of War Matt Foley Chapter 34. Haunted Houses Nick Freeman Chapter 35. The Children’s Ghost Story Beth Rogers Section V. Ghosts On Screen and Stage Chapter 36. Screening the Spectre: Ghosts on Film Murray Leeder Chapter 37. Enchanted Visions: Ghostly Media from E.T.A. Hoffmann to Alfred Hitchcock Elisabeth Bronfen Chapter 38. Spirits on the Air: Ghosts, Sound and the Radio Richard J. Hand Chapter 39. Ghosts and Television Derek Johnston Chapter 40. Performing the Ghost Story on the English Stage Kelly Jones Chapter 41. Cyber-hauntings: The Online Ghost Story and its Cultural Narratives Lorna Piatti-Farnell Section VI. Ghosts in Theory Chapter 42. How Ghosts Became Disgusting Pamela K. Gilbert Chapter 43. Ghostly Animals Kathryn Bird Chapter 44. The Ghost Story and Feminism Diana Wallace Chapter 45. ""Keeping an Eye On Me"": Queer Specters Ardel Haefele-Thomas Chapter 46. Postmodern Ghost Stories Maria Beville Chapter 47. ""Dead Letters"": Postcolonial Haunting in the Work of a Materialist Gerald Gaylard CODA Chapter 48. Stories Not like Any Others: Ghosts and the Ethics of Literature Luke Thurston Index"

Reviews

An excellent introduction and overview of critical approaches to a genre often as odd as its spectral denizens. These essays demonstrate that the ubiquity of the ghost story is, in part, what makes the genre compelling, almost a riddle: ghosts are everywhere and nowhere. - Aran Ruth, Supernatural Studies Association

""An excellent introduction and overview of critical approaches to a genre often as odd as its spectral denizens. These essays demonstrate that the ubiquity of the ghost story is, in part, what makes the genre compelling, almost a riddle: ghosts are everywhere and nowhere."" - Aran Ruth, Supernatural Studies Association

Author Information

Scott Brewster is Reader in English at the University of Lincoln, UK. He has published widely on the Gothic, including essays on M. R. James and on the contemporary ghost film, and on modern poetry and Irish Literature. He participated in the British Library’s Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination exhibition in autumn 2014. Luke Thurston is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at Aberystwyth University, UK and Director of the David Jones Centre. He has published widely on Joyce, modernist literature, and psychoanalysis.

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