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Tales of the Troubled Dead - Ghost Stories in Cultural History (Paperback)
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Tales of the Troubled Dead - Ghost Stories in Cultural History (Paperback)
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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. Traces examples of ghost stories from
Homer to the present day Describes the aspects of storytelling
designed to involve readers Includes stories of attested
apparitions, as well as fiction by a wide range of both canonical
and popular authors
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