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Spectres of the Self - Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750-1920 (Hardcover)
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Spectres of the Self - Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750-1920 (Hardcover)
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Spectres of the Self is a fascinating study of the rich cultures
surrounding the experience of seeing ghosts in England from the
Reformation to the twentieth century. Shane McCorristine examines a
vast range of primary and secondary sources, showing how ghosts,
apparitions, and hallucinations were imagined, experienced, and
debated from the pages of fiction to the case reports of the
Society for Psychical Research. By analysing a broad range of
themes from telepathy and ghost-hunting to the notion of dreaming
while awake and the question of why ghosts wore clothes, Dr
McCorristine reveals the sheer variety of ideas of ghost seeing in
English society and culture. He shows how the issue of ghosts
remained dynamic despite the advance of science and secularism and
argues that the ghost ultimately represented a spectre of the self,
a symbol of the psychological hauntedness of modern experience.
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