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The Victorian ghost story : an Edinburgh companion / edited by Andrew Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Edinburgh companions to the gothic
- Edinburgh companions to the Gothic
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Ghost stories, English--History and criticism.
- Ghost stories, English.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Victorian ghosts / Andrew Smith
- Gothic fiction, romanticism and the origins of the nineteenth-century ghost story : 1764–1832 / Dale Townshend
- The ghost story : 1830–70 / Anthony Mandal
- The ghost story : 1870–1900 / Nick Freeman
- Neo-Victorian unquiet spirits : Encounters with nineteenth-century ghosts / Marie-Luise Kohlke
- Economics / Andrew Smith
- Ghostly machines and mechanical ghosts : Industrialisation and Victorian haunting / Bridget M. Marshall
- The ghost story as written by Victorian women writers / Lucie Armitt
- The Victorian ghost story and colonialism / Melissa Edmundson
- Religion / Alison Milbank
- The Victorian American ghost story / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
- Victorian Christmas ghosts / Tara Moore
- Charles Dickens / Scott Brewster
- Rudyard Kipling / Minna Vuohelainen
- J. Sheridan Le Fanu / William Hughes
- Margaret Oliphant / Valerie Sanders
- Charlotte Riddell / Helena Ifill
- Vernon Lee / Ardel Haefele-Thomas
- Henry James / Luke Thurston
- M.R. James / Roger Luckhurst
- Haunted landscapes / Emma McEvoy
- Maritime ghost stories / Joan Passey
- The Victorian haunted house / Emma Liggins
- Haunted libraries and museums / Darryl Jones
- Pyramids / Andrew Smith.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed October 12, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Victorian ghost story
- ISBN:
- 9781399521512
- 1399521519
- 9781399521529
- 1399521527
- 9781399521505
- 1399521500
- OCLC:
- 1517374687
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000252926
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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