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Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 2010 Four Courts Press hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. From the cover 'These studies of the literary ghost story cast a light on its subjects and its methods. Beginning with the ghost story of popular report and following the form into print as the local expands to the global, these essays trace the movement from the almost palpable manifestations of traditional ghosts to the psychological terrors of the modern form.' Contents: Introduction by Julie Anne Stevens Transformations of the ghost story in post-Reformation England by Peter Marshall Telling tales in Robert Mannyng deBrun's Handlyng synne by Andrew J. Power 'The gates of hell shall not prevail against it': Laudian Ecclesia and Victorian culture wars in the ghost stories of M.R. James by Helen Conrad O'Briain Robert Aickman, the ghost story and the idea of Englishness by Darryl Jones Gendering the ghost story? Victorian women and the challenge of the phantom by Jarlath Killeen 'This voice out of the unseen': love, death and mourning in the writing of Margaret Oliphant by Elizabeth McCarthy Sheridan Le Fanu and the spectral empire by Nicholas Allen The true artistry of Oscar Wilde: sources and style in 'The Canterville ghost' by Anne Markey Flashlights and fiction: the development of the modern Irish ghost story by Julie Anne Stevens Things at once spectral and human: Robert Louis Stevenson's ghosts by Jenny McDonnell Pictures of the floating world: Keri Hulme's post-apocalyptic New Zealand by Melanie Otto 'Taking noiseless turns in the passage': phantoms and floor plans in Henry James' The turn of the screw by Dara Downey 'The consecration of his enterprise': Henry James' 'The real right thing' by Stephen Matterson Edith Wharton's wartime ghosts by Ann Patten Hideous doughnuts and haunted housewives: Gothic undercurrents in Shirley Jackson's domestic humour by Bernice M. Murphy A 'dramar in reel life': freaky dolls, M.R. James and modern children's ghost stories by Jane Suzanne Carroll Hauntedness: Edgar Allan Poe and Chuck Palahniuk by Philip Coleman.…