ABSTRACT
This volume reflects on the ghostly and its varied manifestations including the uncanny, the revenant, the echo, and other forms of artistic allusion. These unsettling presences of the spectral other occur in literature, history, film, and art. The ghostly (and its artistic, literary, filmic, and cultural representations) remains of burgeoning interest and debate to twenty-first century literary critics, cultural historians, art historians, and linguists. Our collection of essays considers the wider implications of these representations of the ghostly and notions of the spectral to define a series of different, but inter-related, cultural topics (concerned with questions of ageing, the uncanny, the spectral, spiritualism, eschatology), which imaginatively testify to our compulsion to search for evidence of the ghostly in our everyday encounters with the material world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|40 pages
Romantic and Victorian Encounters with the Ghostly
chapter 2|12 pages
‘Strength in What Remains Behind’
chapter 3|14 pages
Far More Than a Simple Ghost Story
chapter 4|12 pages
Wilhelminian Apparitions
part 2|51 pages
Visual and Material Encounters with the Ghostly
part 3|49 pages
Ghostly Legacies