Tales of the Troubled Dead

Ghost Stories in Cultural History

Catherine Belsey (Professor Emeritus in English, University of Swansea)

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English

Edinburgh University Press
02 January 2020

Literary studies: general; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Considers the ways ghost stories appeal to our uneasy relationship with conventional good sense.

What do they want, the ghosts that, even in the age of science, still haunt our storytelling? Catherine Belsey's answer to the question traces Gothic writing and tales of the uncanny from the ancient past to the present

from Homer and the Icelandic sagas to Lincoln in the Bardo.

Taking Shakespeare's Ghost in Hamlet as a turning point in the history of the genre, she uncovers the old stories the play relies on, as well as its influence on later writing. This ghostly trail is vividly charted through accredited records of apparitions and fiction by such writers as Ann Radcliffe, Washington Irving, Emily Bronte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, M. R. James and Susan Hill. In recent blockbusting movies, too, ghost stories bring us fragments of news from the unknown.

By: Catherine Belsey (Professor Emeritus in English University of Swansea)
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 290g
ISBN: 9781474417365
ISBN 10: 1474417361
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 02 January 2020
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Prelude. The Changing Shapes of Dorothy Dingley 1. A Dead King Walks2. Haunted Pasts3. The Ghost of Mrs Milton4. Women in White5. Dangerous Dead Women6. Unquiet Gothic Castles7. Spectres of Desire8. All in the Mind?9. Listening to Ghosts10. Strange to Tell Coda. Figurative PhantomsSourcesAcknowledgementsCreditsIndex

Catherine Belsey was a critic and cultural historian. After an academic career at Cambridge, Cardiff and Swansea, she visited the University of Derby for discussions with the students. She lived in Cambridge and chaired a range of reading groups in the area on an occasional basis.