Ghostly encounters : cultural and imaginary representations of the spectral from the nineteenth century to the present /: cultural and imaginary representations of the spectral from the nineteenth century to the present. (2020)
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- Book
- Title:
- Ghostly encounters : cultural and imaginary representations of the spectral from the nineteenth century to the present /: cultural and imaginary representations of the spectral from the nineteenth century to the present. (2020)
- Main Title:
- Ghostly encounters : cultural and imaginary representations of the spectral from the nineteenth century to the present
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Stefano Cracolici and Mark Sandy.
- Editors:
- Cracolici, Stefano
Sandy, Mark, 1970- - Contents:
- 1 Introduction – The Lady Vanishes: Searching for Evidence of the Ghostly, Stefano Cracolici and Mark Sandy Part 1 – Romantic and Victorian Encounters with the Ghostly 2 ‘Strength in What Remains Behind’: Wordsworth, Spectral Selves, and the Question of Ageing, Mark Sandy 3 Far More Than a Simple Ghost Story: The Complexity of Algernon Blackwood’s ‘Chemical’ (1926), Mike Pincombe 4 Wilhelminian Apparitions Ghosts and Desire between Science, Religion and Art in the German Nineteenth-Century Novel, Nicholas Saul Part 2 – Visual and Material Encounters with the Ghostly 5 The Visual Representation of Ghosts in Early Modern Japan, Rosina Buckland 6 Embodied Shadows: Sculpted Memory, Sensed Presence, and the Third Party, Douglas Davies 7 Ghostly Presences: Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak, Ann Davies Part 3 – Ghostly Legacies: Modern and Contemporary Encounters 8 Futurist Ghosts, Stefano Cracolici 9 Ghosts in the City: From Baudelaire to Lydie Salvayre and Hilary Mantel, Christopher Lloyd 10 Postscript – Disavowing Disappointment in the Face of Ghosts From Keats’ ‘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, Michael Mack
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 133.1
Ghosts -- History
Apparitions -- History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781000295474
9781000295399
9781003132394 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780367676957
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.576998
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