Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction (eBook)

SILVANA COLELLA Associate Professor of English, University of Macerata, Italy AGNIESZKA GOLDA-DEREJCZYK Lecturer in Contemporary British Literature, Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, University of Silesia, Poland ANN HEILMANN Professor of English, University of Hull, UK MARK LLEWELLYN Lecturer in English, University of Liverpool, UK FRANCIS O'GORMAN Professor of Victorian Literature, University of Leeds, UK ESTHER SAXEY Visiting Tutor, English and Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Notes on Contributors Introduction; R.Arias & P.Pulham PART I: HISTORIES AND HAUNTINGS Salley Vickers, Venice, and the Victorians; F.O'Gorman Spectrality, S(p)ecularity and Textuality: Or, Some Reflections in the Glass; M.Llewellyn PART II: SPECTRAL WOMEN Repetition and Eternity: Spectral and Textual Continuity in Michèle Roberts' In the Red Kitchen ; A.Golda-Derejczyk The Maid, the Master, his Ghost and her Monster: Alias Grace and Mary Reilly ; E.Saxey PART III: SENSING THE PAST Olfactory Ghosts: Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White ; S.Colella The Haunting of Henry James: Jealous Ghosts, Affinities, and The Others; A.Heilmann PART IV: GHOSTS IN THE CITY Haunted Places, Haunted Spaces: The Spectral Return of Victorian London in Neo-Victorian Fiction; R.Arias Mapping Histories: The Golem and the Serial Killer in White Chappell , Scarlet Tracings and Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem ; P.Pulham Bibliography Index