The Victorian Ghost Story: An Edinburgh Companion - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Andrew SmithSeries:Edinburgh Companions to the GothicPublish date:8/31/2025Pages:416
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399521499ISBN-10:1399521497UPC:9781399521499Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Gothic & RomanceSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.6711Product ID:SCCHH3DKBP
The Victorian Ghost Story: An Edinburgh Companion invites readers to interrogate the multi-layered, multi-vocal conversations that occur within the Victorian ghost story. Its twenty-four chapters provide a historical overview of the development of the ghost story and explore it in light of the 'new' contexts of the period, including mechanisation, imperialism and changes to the economy. As a much-needed survey of critical work on the ghost story, it features detailed analysis of major Victorian writers such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Riddell and Henry James, and it examines the places haunted by Victorian ghosts: haunted houses but also haunted museums, fells, pyramids and seascapes. By engaging with ecocriticism, race, colonialism, class and gender, this interdisciplinary Companion constitutes a significant scholarly contribution to the Victorian ghost story and how it relates to a broader Gothic tradition.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399521499ISBN-10:1399521497UPC:9781399521499Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Gothic & RomanceSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.6711Product ID:SCCHH3DKBP
Smith, Andrew: - Andrew Smith is Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield, where he co-directs the Centre for the History of the Gothic. He is the author or editor of twenty-six published books including Dickens and the Gothic (2024), Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914-1934: The Ghosts of World War One (2022; winner of the Allan Lloyd Smith prize), Gothic Death 1740-1914: A Literary History (2016), The Ghost Story 1840-1920: A Cultural History (2010), Gothic Literature (2007; revised 2013), Victorian Demons (2004) and Gothic Radicalism (2000).
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