The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Michael Cox (Selected by), R. A. Gilbert (Selected by)Publish date:4/24/2003Pages:528
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192804471ISBN-10:192804472UPC:9780192804471Book Category:Literary Criticism, FictionBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Ghost, Anthologies (multiple authors)Size:7.88 x 5.00 x 1.11 inchesWeight:0.7606Product ID:SCQVBJJBXS
The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century, fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more general Victorian fascination with death and what lay beyond it. Though they were as much a part of the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192804471ISBN-10:192804472UPC:9780192804471Book Category:Literary Criticism, FictionBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Ghost, Anthologies (multiple authors)Size:7.88 x 5.00 x 1.11 inchesWeight:0.7606Product ID:SCQVBJJBXS
Michael Cox is Editor of A Dictionary of Writers and Their Works, and The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories. R. A. Gilbert is a well-known antiquarian bookseller.
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