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The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid
scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and
violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the
nineteenth century, fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with
the more general Victorian fascination with death and what lay beyond
it. Though they were as much a part of the cultural and literary fabric
of the age as imperial confidence, the best of the stories still retain
their original power to surprise and unsettle. In Victorian Ghost
Stories, the editors map out the development of the ghost story from
1850 to the early years of the twentieth century and demonstrate the
importance of this form of short fiction in Victorian popular culture.
As well as reprinting stories by supernatural specialists such as J. S.
Le Fanu and M. R. James, this selection emphasizes the key role played
by women writers-including Elizabeth Gaskell, Rhoda Broughton, and
Charlotte Riddell-and offers one or two genuine rarities. Other writers
represented include Charles Dickens, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle, and R. L. Stevenson. There is also a fascinating
Introduction and a chronological list of ghost story collections from
1850 to 1910.
scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and
violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the
nineteenth century, fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with
the more general Victorian fascination with death and what lay beyond
it. Though they were as much a part of the cultural and literary fabric
of the age as imperial confidence, the best of the stories still retain
their original power to surprise and unsettle. In Victorian Ghost
Stories, the editors map out the development of the ghost story from
1850 to the early years of the twentieth century and demonstrate the
importance of this form of short fiction in Victorian popular culture.
As well as reprinting stories by supernatural specialists such as J. S.
Le Fanu and M. R. James, this selection emphasizes the key role played
by women writers-including Elizabeth Gaskell, Rhoda Broughton, and
Charlotte Riddell-and offers one or two genuine rarities. Other writers
represented include Charles Dickens, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle, and R. L. Stevenson. There is also a fascinating
Introduction and a chronological list of ghost story collections from
1850 to 1910.
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Рік:
2003
Видавництво:
Oxford University Press
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
495
ISBN 10:
0192804472
ISBN 13:
9780192804471
Файл:
EPUB, 513 KB
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IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2003
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