The ghost : a cultural history / Susan Owens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Owens, Susan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ghosts.

Ghosts in art.

Ghosts in literature.

Great Britain--Civilization.

Great Britain.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

288 pages, 24 numbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Tate Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

[This book] delves into a wealth of literary and artistic sources, including illuminated manuscripts, woodcut engravings, magic-lantern slides, paintings, prints, poems, novels and stories, providing a fresh take on a subject that has fascinated us for centuries. In this broad cultural history, Susan Owens reveals what these spirits and apparitions can tell us about our culture and about ourselves, and explores how ghosts have inhabited a wide range of roles from medieval times to the present day. A dazzling range of artists are featured, including William Blake, Henry Fuseli, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Paul Nash and Jeremy Deller, alongside writers such as John Donne, William Shakespeare, Samuel Pepys, Daniel Defoe, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Hilary Mantel and Sarah Waters.

Contents:

Introduction

The living and the dead

Questionable shapes

Ghost for a new age

Terror and wonder

Appearances and disappearances

A haunted century

Re-inventing ghosts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-282) and index.

ISBN:

9781849764674

1849764670

OCLC:

972770238