The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story

Scott Brewster, Luke Thurston, Scott Brewster, Luke Thurston

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781138184763
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317288930
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Gothic, Romance, & Horror Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The Handbook to the Ghost Story sets out to survey and significantly extend a new field of criticism which has been taking shape over recent years, centring on the ghost story and bringing together a vast range of interpretive methods and theoretical perspectives. The main task of the volume is to properly situate the genre within historical and contemporary literary cultures across the globe, and to explore its significance within wider literary contexts as well as those of the supernatural. The Handbook offers the most significant contribution to this new critical field to date, assembling some of its leading scholars to examine the key contexts and issues required for understanding the emergence and development of the ghost story.

Index

Aaron, Jane 9

abject, the 445–6

Aboriginal culture and ghosts (Australia) 252–3, 255–7

Abrahams, Lionel 455

Adams, Francis 253–4

Aeschylus 390

aestheticism 153

Aickman, Robert 8, 168–76, 335; Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories 169, 174; “Into the Wood” 171–2, 174; “Ringing the Changes” 171, 174, 289–9; “The Trains” 293–4, 295; “The Unsettled Dust” 172–4, 331

Aiken, Joan 339

Ainsworth, W. H. 34

Aird, Catherine 294

Alcalá, Antonio 234

Aldington, Richard 320, 323, 324

Aldrich, Robert The Legend of Lylah Clare 12, 362, 368–9

Alexander, Bryan 399

Alexis, André 223

Alfred Hitchcock’s Ghostly Gallery 340, 341

Almanzar, José Alcántara 227n

America 32–3, 50, 116–17, 143, 144, 148, 160, 206–14

Amis, Kingsley 328, 380–1

Ancuta, Katarzyna 10

animals and the ghost story 262–3, 418–26

Anson, Jay The Amityville Horror 206, 208, 332

antiquarian ghost story 7

Apel, Johann August 25

Armitt, Lucie 11, 237

Asquith, Cynthia 71, 320, 323–4, 428

Asquith, Herbert 323

Atwood, Margaret 220–1

audio technology 370–7

Australia 33, 239, 251–9

autobiography, the ghost story as 107, 117–18, 192

Ayckbourn, Alan 393, 394

Aykroyd, Dan 409; see also Ghostbusters

Baillie, Joanna 24

Bain, Francis William 271–2

Baker, Timothy C. 9

Baldwin, James 439

Bannerman, Anne 69...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• SECTION I Ghostly Origins
• SECTION II Vital Spirits
• SECTION III Haunted Nations
• SECTION IV Haunting Sites
• SECTION V Ghosts on Screen and Stage
• SECTION VI Ghosts in Theory
• Coda
• Index