A History of the Modern British Ghost Story

By Simon Hay

Book Overview

Acknowledgements Introduction: Even the Dead Will Not Be Safe A Failed Modernity: The Ghost Story as the Bad Conscience of the Historical Novel Fragment and Totality: The Ghost Story and Early Victorian Realism Supernatural Naturalism: The Golden Age of the Ghost Story Ghosts that a White Man Can See: The Ghost Story and Empire 'I had not Thought Death had Undone so Many': Modernism and the Ghost The Ghost Story and Magic Realism Conclusion: Ghosts and History Works Cited Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349326151
• ISBN13: 9781349326150
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"