Tales of the troubled dead: ghost stories in cultural history
What do they want, the ghosts that, even in the age of science, still haunt our storytelling? Catherine Belsey's answer to the question traces Gothic writing and tales of the uncanny from the ancient past to the present - from Homer and the Icelandic sagas to Lincoln in the Bardo. Taking Shakes...
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| Zusammenfassung: | What do they want, the ghosts that, even in the age of science, still haunt our storytelling? Catherine Belsey's answer to the question traces Gothic writing and tales of the uncanny from the ancient past to the present - from Homer and the Icelandic sagas to Lincoln in the Bardo. Taking Shakespeare's Ghost in Hamlet as a turning point in the history of the genre, she uncovers the old stories the play relies on, as well as its influence on later writing. This ghostly trail is vividly charted through accredited marc:records of apparitions and fiction by such writers as Ann Radcliffe, Washington Irving, Emily Bronte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, M. R. James and Susan Hill. In recent blockbusting movies, too, ghost stories bring us fragments of news from the unknown |
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Contents Prelude. The Changing Shapes of Dorothy Dingley I I. A Dead King Walks II 2. Haunted Pasts 33 3· The Ghost of Mrs Milton 4· Women in White 57 7» 5· Dangerous Dead Women 100 Unquiet Gothic Castles 119 6. Coda. Figurative Phantoms Sources w 9· Listening to Ghosts IO. Strange to Tell 'Ф All in the Mind? CO 7· Spectres of Desire 8. U5 195 215 239 253 Acknowledgements Credits 269 Index 27З 271
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