"Five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the
world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has even been
an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All
argument is against it; but all belief is for it." --Samuel Johnson
Ghosts are woven into the very fabric of life. In Britain, every
town, village, and great house has a spectral resident, and their
enduring popularity in literature, art, folklore, and film attests
to their continuing power to fascinate, terrify, and inspire. Our
conceptions of ghosts--the fears they provoke, the forms they
take--are connected to the conventions and beliefs of each
particular era, from the marauding undead of the Middle Ages to the
psychologically charged presences of our own age. The ghost is no
less than the mirror of the times. Organized chronologically, this
new cultural history features a dazzling range of artists and
writers, including William Hogarth, William Blake, Henry Fuseli,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Susan Hiller and
Jeremy Deller; John Donne, William Shakespeare, Samuel Pepys,
Daniel Defoe, Percy and Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Charles
Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Muriel Spark,
Hilary Mantel, and Sarah Waters.
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