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The Ghost Story 1840-1920 : a cultural history.
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Seeing the spectre: an economic theory of the ghost story; 2 Dickens's spectres: sight, money, and reading the ghost story; 3 Money and machines: Wilkie Collins's ghosts; 4 Love, money, and history: the female ghost story; 5 Reading ghosts and reading texts: spiritualism; 6 Haunted houses and history: Henry James's Anglo-American ghosts; 7 Colonial ghosts: mimicry, history, and laughter; 8 M.R. …”
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Ghost-seers, detectives, and spiritualists : theories of vision in Victorian literature and science /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Outer Vision, Inner Vision: Ghost-Seeing and Ghost Stories: 1. Contextualizing the ghost story; 2. …”
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Ghost-seers, detectives, and spiritualists : theories of vision in Victorian literature and science /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Contextualizing the ghost story -- The rise of optical apparitions -- Inner vision and spiritual optics -- 'Betwixt ancient faith and modern incredulity' -- Visual learning : sight and Victorian epistemology -- Scopophilia and scopophobia : Poe's readerly flâneur --Stains, smears, and visual language in The moonstone -- Semiotics vs. encyclopedism : the case of Sherlock Holmes -- Detective fiction's uncanny -- Light, ether, and the invisible world -- Inner vision and occult detection : Le Fanu's Martin Hesselius -- Other dimensions, other worlds -- Psychic sleuths and soul doctors.…”
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Ghost-seers, detectives, and spiritualists : theories of vision in Victorian literature and science /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Contextualizing the ghost story -- The rise of optical apparitions -- Inner vision and spiritual optics -- 'Betwixt ancient faith and modern incredulity' -- Visual learning : sight and Victorian epistemology -- Scopophilia and scopophobia : Poe's readerly flâneur --Stains, smears, and visual language in The moonstone -- Semiotics vs. encyclopedism : the case of Sherlock Holmes -- Detective fiction's uncanny -- Light, ether, and the invisible world -- Inner vision and occult detection : Le Fanu's Martin Hesselius -- Other dimensions, other worlds -- Psychic sleuths and soul doctors.…”
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Victorian ghosts in the noontide : women writers and the supernatural /
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British women short story writers : the new woman to now /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Modernist women's ghost stories and the troubling of modernity /…”
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Lesbian scandal and the culture of modernism /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…The Suggestion of Lesbianism and the Great War: 'The Cult of the Clitoris' Scandal; 2. Lesbian Ghost Stories and Postwar Culture -- Part II. The Suggestion of Lesbianism and Modernist Communities: 3. …”
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The supernatural and English fiction /
Published 1995Table of Contents: “…James and the English ghost story -- Watchers on the threshold. Frankenstein -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton -- Fin de siècle : Arthur Machen -- Algernon Blackwood and David Lindsay -- Travelling in space-time -- An insinuation of doctrine. …”
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Gothic literature /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Gothic histories -- Reading the gothic -- Burke -- Freud -- The gothic heyday 1760-1820 -- Defining the gothic: Otranto -- Radcliffe and Lewis -- American gothic -- Reading Frankenstein -- The gothic, 1820-1865 -- Gothic mutations: poetry -- Edgar Allen Poe and the American gothic -- Gothic mutations: prose -- Reading Jane Eyre -- Gothic Proximities, 1865-1900 -- Hidden identities: ghosts -- Gothic doubles -- Race and history: post-bellum gothic -- Reading Dracula -- Twentieth century -- The ghost story as the end of gothic? -- Radio and film -- Contemparary fiction: postmodern gothic? …”
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