The ghost story 1840-1920

Informationen zum Autor ndrew Smith is a certified professional accountant and chartered accountant, author, speaker, and husband to the amazing Janise. He has a high-energy, rambunctious personality, and is known for his infectious sense of humour combined with an unmissable, hearty and loud, evil-villain type of laugh. His humour kept him sane while he supported his wife and family through the shock of her sudden disability. But it was his love for her that helped him work with their professional team to teach her to walk, talk, and dance again. They live in Toronto, Canada with their youngest son. Klappentext The Ghost Story 1840-1920: A Cultural History is the first book length analysis of the British ghost story in over thirty years. It includes readings of the economic, national, colonial, and gender contexts of the ghost story and provides a new and important critical re-evaluation of writers including Dickens, Collins, Henry James, and M.R. James. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Seeing the Spectre: an economic theory of the Ghost Story2. 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. James's Gothic Revival ConclusionBibliography

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Andrew Smith is an aircraft structure technician, writer, designer, and illustrator. He has a special interest in spiritual connectivity and the wide-ranging forces of harmony, wisdom, patience, prudence, and discipline. He lives in Ottawa with his family.

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The Ghost Story 1840-1920: A Cultural History is the first book length analysis of the British ghost story in over thirty years. It includes readings of the economic, national, colonial, and gender contexts of the ghost story and provides a new and important critical re-evaluation of writers including Dickens, Collins, Henry James, and M.R. James.

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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. James's Gothic Revival Conclusion Bibliography