A History of the Modern British Ghost Story
Description
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.
Keywords
Literary CriticismSemiotics & TheorySocial ScienceEuropeanModern20th CenturyFictionHistoryEuropeGreat BritainLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & ComparativeAnthropologyCultural & Social
2011Book
Author(s)Simon John Hay
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780230278325
LanguageEnglish
