Visions of an Unseen World - Sasha Handley

Visions of an Unseen World

Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth Century England

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Buch | Hardcover
304 Seiten
2007
Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-85196-888-6 (ISBN)
199,95 inkl. MwSt
A study of the production, circulation and consumption of English ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This work examines a variety of mediums: ballads and chapbooks, newspapers, sermons, medical treatises and scientific journals, novels and plays. It relates the telling of ghost stories to changes associated with the Enlightenment.

Sasha Handley

Introduction: The Ghosts of Early Modern England; 1: Restoration Hauntings; 2: Printing the Preternatural in the Late Seventeenth Century; 3: A New Canterbury Tale; 4: Ghost Stories in the Periodical Press, c. 1700–c. 1750; 5: Confessional Cultures and Ghost Beliefs, c. 1750–c. 1800; 6: Landscapes of Belief and Everyday Life in Late Eighteenth-Century England; Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.1.2007
Reihe/Serie Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Literatur Krimi / Thriller / Horror Horror
Sachbuch/Ratgeber
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-85196-888-1 / 1851968881
ISBN-13 978-1-85196-888-6 / 9781851968886
Zustand Neuware
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