Henry James and the Supernatural [electronic resource] /
Despotopoulou, A.editor.
Reed, K.editor.
This book is a collection of essays on ghostly fiction by Henry James. The contributors analyze James's use of the ghost story as a subgenre and the difficult theoretical issues that James's texts pose.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on the Texts; Contributors; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION: "I see ghosts everywhere"; Notes; CHAPTER 1: "The complexion of ever so long ago": Style and Henry James's Ghosts; Notes; CHAPTER 2: Immensities of Perception and Yearning: The Haunting of Henry James's Heroes; Notes; CHAPTER 3: Haunting the Churches: Henry James and the Sacred Space in "The Altar of the Dead"; The Chamber of Consciousness; James among the Churches; Thickening the Conceptual; Notes
CHAPTER 4: Mysterious Tenants: Uncanny Women and the Private or Public Dilemma in the Supernatural TalesNotes; CHAPTER 5: John Marcher's Uncanny Unmanning in "The Beast in the Jungle"; Notes; CHAPTER 6: Homospectrality in Henry James's Ghost Stories; Why Do George and Paul De Grey Have to Die?; Why Does Captain Diamond Become a Ghost?; Why Is Edmund Orme Already Dead?; Why Does Owen Wingrave Choose Death?; Notes; CHAPTER 7: Second Thoughts: "Queer 'Maud-Evelyn'"; Notes; CHAPTER 8: Uncanny Doublings in "Owen Wingrave"; Notes; CHAPTER 9: The Afterlife of Figures; Notes; EPILOGUE: Ghost Writing
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book is a collection of essays on ghostly fiction by Henry James. The contributors analyze James's use of the ghost story as a subgenre and the difficult theoretical issues that James's texts pose.
James, Henry, 1843-1916
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Fiction.
America-Literatures.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Fiction.
North American Literature.