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Ghostly encounters : cultural and imaginary representations of the spectral from the nineteenth century to the present / edited by Stefano Cracolici and Mark Sandy.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Literary criticism and cultural theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ghosts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 155 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction - The Lady Vanishes: Searching for Evidence of the Ghostly p. 1 / Stefano Cracolici and Mark Sandy
- Part 1 Romantic and Victorian Encounters with the Ghostly p. 11
- 2 'Strength in What Remains Behind': Wordsworth, Spectral Selves, and the Question of Ageing p. 13 / Mark Sandy
- 3 Far More Than a Simple Ghost Story: The Complexity of Algernon Blackwood's'Chemical' (1926) p. 25 / Mike Pincombe
- 4 Wilhelminian Apparitions: Ghosts and Desire between Science, Religion and Art in the German Nineteenth-Century Novel p. 39 / Nicholas Saul
- Part 2 Visual and Material Encounters with the Ghostly p. 51
- 5 The Visual Representation of Ghosts in Early Modern Japan p. 53 / Rosina Buckland
- 6 Embodied Shadows: Sculpted Memory, Sensed Presence, and the Third Party p. 74 / Douglas J. Davies
- 7 Ghostly Presences: Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak p. 89 / Ann Davies
- Part 3 Ghostly Legacies: Modern and Contemporary Encounters p. 103
- 8 Futurist Ghosts p. 105 / Stefano Cracolici
- 9 Ghosts in the City: From Baudelaire to Lydie Salvayre and Hilary Mantel p. 121 / Christopher Lloyd
- 10 Postscript - Disavowing Disappointment in the Face of Ghosts: From Keats's 'Destructive Element' to Hannah Arendt's Reading of Conrad's Heart of Darkness or Hegel's Dialectics as Colonialism's Revenant in Twentieth-Century Totalitarianism p. 134 / Michael Mack.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781003132394
- 1003132391
- Publisher Number:
- 40030337214
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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