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The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story

Scott Brewster & Luke Thurston

First published 2017
Publisher Routledge
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xviii+487
ISBN 9781138184763

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Year Reviewer Publication
2018 Jim Rockhill Dead Reckonings, No. 23, Spring 2018

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Introduction (The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story) Luke Thurston & Scott Brewster Essay
19 Gothic and Romantic Ghosts in Novels, Dramas, and the Chapbook Diane Long Hoeveler Essay
29 The Ghost Story and the Victorian Literary Marketplace Anthony Mandal Essay
40 The Ghost Story and Science Sarah Bissell Essay
49 Oscar Wilde in the Fourth Dimension: Ghosts, Geometry, and the Victorian Crisis of Meaning Jarlath Killeen Essay
59 Ghost Stories and Sensation Fiction Brittany Roberts Essay
69 Women Writers and Ghost Stories Melissa Edmundson Essay
78 The Victorian Ghost Story and the Invention of Christmas Dewi Evans Essay
89 Playful Spirits: Charles Dickens and the Ghost Story Claire Wood Essay
98 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Alison Milbank Essay
106 Haunting Memories: Death, Mourning, and Memory in the Ghost Stories of Margaret Oliphant Elizabeth McCarthy Essay
116 Algernon Blackwood S. T. Joshi Essay
124 Conan Doyle's Sceptical Reader: Ghost Stories, Science, and Spiritualism Kevin Mills Essay
134 M. R. James Darryl Jones Essay
142 Jamesian Ghosts: Romance and History T. J. Lustig Essay
150 Vernon Lee Oliver Tearle Essay
159 "A Roaring and Discontinuous Universe": Edith Wharton's Modern Hauntings Emily Coit Essay
168 "German Has a Word for the Total Effect": Robert Aickman's Strange Stories Timothy Jones Essay
179 The English Ghost Story David Punter Essay
188 The Ghost Story in Scotland Timothy C. Baker Essay
197 Haunted Wales Jane Aaron Essay
206 The American Ghost Story Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Essay
215 "If You Build It, They Will Come": The Strange Case of the English-Canadian Ghost Story Cynthia Sugars Essay
225 The Ghost and the Darkness: Creole Hauntings in Caribbean Literature Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert Essay
233 The Latin American Ghost Story Enrique Ajuria Ibarra Essay
242 "There Was More in This Darkness": The New Zealand Ghost Story Erin Mercer Essay
251 Australian Ghost Fiction David Ellison & Penelope Hone Essay
260 Strange Ghosts: Asian Reconfigurations of the Chinese Ghost Story Katarzyna Ancuta Essay
270 Indian Ghosts: A Love Affair Tabish Khair Essay
279 Shades of Dissent: Notes on Haunting in South African Literary History Rebecca Duncan Essay
291 Haunted Landscapes Lucie Armitt Essay
301 Transport and Trauma: Uncanny Modernities Ralph Harrington Essay
312 Ghost Walking Scott Brewster Essay
319 The Ghosts of War Matt Foley Essay
328 Haunted Houses Nick Freeman Essay
338 Children's Ghost Stories Beth Rodgers Essay
351 Screening the Spectre: Ghosts on Film Murray Leeder Essay
361 Enchanted Visions: Ghostly Media from E.T.A. Hoffman to Alfred Hitchcock Elisabeth Bronfen Essay
370 Spirits on the Air: Ghosts, Sound, and the Radio Richard J. Hand Essay
378 Ghosts and Television Derek Johnston Essay
388 Performing the Ghost Story on the English Stage Kelly Jones Essay
397 Cyber-Hauntings: The Online Ghost Story and Its Cultural Narratives Lorna Piatti-Farnell Essay
409 How Ghosts Became Disgusting Pamela K. Gilbert Essay
418 Ghostly Animals Kathryn Bird Essay
427 The Ghost Story and Feminism Diana Wallace Essay
436 "Keeping an Eye on Me": Queer Spectres Ardel Haefele-Thomas Essay
445 Postmodern Ghost Stories Maria Beville Essay
454 "Dead Letters": Post-Colonial Haunting in the Work of a Materialist Gerald Gaylard Essay
467 Stories Not Like Any Others: Ghosts and the Ethics of Literature Luke Thurston Essay