A history of the modern British ghost story
By: Simon Hay
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780230278325
Subjects: English Ghost stories; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Even the dead will not be safe; title: A failed modernity: the ghost story as the bad conscience of the historical novel; title: Fragment and totality: the ghost story and early Victorian realism; title: Supernatural naturalism: the golden age of the ghost story; title: Ghosts that a white man can see: the ghost story and empire; title: 'I had not thought death had undone so many': modernism and the ghost; title: The ghost story and magic realism; title: Conclusion: Ghosts and history.