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Visions of an Unseen World - Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth Century England (Hardcover)
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Visions of an Unseen World - Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth Century England (Hardcover)
Series: Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World
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This book describes the haunting of eighteenth-century England. It
is the first in-depth study of the production, circulation and
consumption of English ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This
period saw the establishment of the ghost story as a literary
genre. Handley combines close textual analysis with a broad
conception of historical change. She examines a variety of mediums:
ballads and chapbooks, newspapers, sermons, medical treatises and
scientific journals, novels and plays. She relates the telling of
ghost stories to wider changes associated with the Enlightenment,
arguing that they played a key role in battles against atheism,
republicanism, material excess and secularisation.
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