The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story
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The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story

  1. 488 pages
  2. English
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The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story

About this book

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.

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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

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. CONTENTS
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. Introduction
  8. SECTION I Ghostly Origins
  9. SECTION II Vital Spirits
  10. SECTION III Haunted Nations
  11. SECTION IV Haunting Sites
  12. SECTION V Ghosts on Screen and Stage
  13. SECTION VI Ghosts in Theory
  14. Coda
  15. Index