Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples from Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James and Rudyard Kipling, amongst others, to the end of the twentieth century, looking at how they address empire, class, property, history and trauma.

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SIMON J. HAY was educated at Massey University, New Zealand, and Duke University, USA. He teaches Postcolonial Literature and Theory at Connecticut College, USA, and his most recent publications are in Journal x, Radical Philosophy, and Pedagogy.

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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