Spectres of masculinity : manhood in Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories, 1860-1914 / Anna S. Berger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berger, Anna S., author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost

Series:

GenderScripts ; bd. 5.

Genderscripts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Ghost stories, English--History and criticism.

Ghost stories, English.

Masculinity in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages).

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : Transcript, [2025]

Contents:

Frontmatter

Editorial

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The Ghost Story as a Genre: Entertainment, Uncanny Minds, and the Political Dimension of Haunting

Political Bodies: Empire, Englishness, and the Ideal of Imperial Masculinity

The Structure of this Book

Chapter 1 Uncanny Places: Haunted Houses and Male Discomfort

Remnants of the Past: History, Architecture, and Gendered Domestic Spaces

Female Spaces, Monstrous Women, and the Effeminising Effect of Ghost-Seeing in Charlotte Riddell's "Nut Bush Farm", Lettice Galbraith's "A Ghost's Revenge", and Algernon Blackwood's "The Empty House"

Chapter 2 Spectral Sexualities: Guilty Desire and the Male Sexual Body

Closeted Desire: Secrecy, Disclosure, and the Ghost Story

Homospectrality and Queer Men in Vernon Lee's "Winthrop's Adventure" and Henry James's "The Real Right Thing"

Longing for the Female Sexual Body: Elizabeth Gaskell's "The Poor Clare" and Edith Nesbit's "The Ebony Frame"

Chapter 3 Weak Men: Adventure, Nationhood, and Degeneration in Imperial Ghost Stories

The Construction of a Myth: Displays of Manliness in Imperial Adventure Fiction

The Gothic Twist: Failing Men in Imperial Ghost Stories by Amelia B. Edwards, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle

Chapter 4 Male Scepticism and Paternal Ghost-Seeing: Science and Spiritualism in the Ghost Story

Ghostly Punishments: Supernatural Forces and the Limits of Scientific Epistemology in Bram Stoker's "The Judge's House" and Lettice Galbraith's "In the Šance Room"

Spectral Revelations and Manly Sentiment: Margaret Oliphant's "The Open Door" and Rudyard Kipling's "They"

Conclusion

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

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Print version :

ISBN:

9783839440568

3839440564

Publisher Number:

40033182599

CIPO000313955

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