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A study of the production, circulation and consumption of English
ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This work examines a
variety of mediums: ballads and chapbooks, newspapers, sermons,
medical treatises and scientific journals, novels and plays. It
relates the telling of ghost stories to changes associated with the
Enlightenment.
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.
What does it mean to be a social and cultural historian today? In
the wake of the 'cultural turn', and in an age of digital and
public history, what challenges and opportunities await historians
in the early 21st century? In this exciting new text, leading
historians reflect on key developments in their fields and argue
for a range of 'new directions' in social and cultural history.
Focusing on emerging areas of historical research such as the
history of the emotions and environmental history, New Directions
in Social and Cultural History is an invaluable guide to the
current and future state of the field. The book is divided into
three clear sections, each with an editorial introduction, and
covering key thematic areas: histories of the human, the material
world, and challenges and provocations. Each chapter in the
collection provides an introduction to the key and recent
developments in its specialist field, with their authors then
moving on to argue for what they see as particularly important
shifts and interventions in the theory and methodology and suggest
future developments. New Directions in Social and Cultural History
provides a comprehensive and insightful overview of this burgeoning
field which will be important reading for all students and scholars
of social and cultural history and historiography.
A riveting look at how the early modern world revolutionized sleep
and its relation to body, mind, soul, and society Drawing on
diverse archival sources and material artifacts, Handley reveals
that the way we sleep is as dependent on culture as it is on
biological and environmental factors. After 1660 the accepted
notion that sleepers lay at the mercy of natural forces and
supernatural agents was challenged by new medical thinking about
sleep's relationship to the nervous system. This breakthrough
coincided with radical changes shaping everything from sleeping
hours to bedchambers. Handley's illuminating work documents a major
evolution in our conscious understanding of the unconscious.
What does it mean to be a social and cultural historian today? In
the wake of the 'cultural turn', and in an age of digital and
public history, what challenges and opportunities await historians
in the early 21st century? In this exciting new text, leading
historians reflect on key developments in their fields and argue
for a range of 'new directions' in social and cultural history.
Focusing on emerging areas of historical research such as the
history of the emotions and environmental history, New Directions
in Social and Cultural History is an invaluable guide to the
current and future state of the field. The book is divided into
three clear sections, each with an editorial introduction, and
covering key thematic areas: histories of the human, the material
world, and challenges and provocations. Each chapter in the
collection provides an introduction to the key and recent
developments in its specialist field, with their authors then
moving on to argue for what they see as particularly important
shifts and interventions in the theory and methodology and suggest
future developments. New Directions in Social and Cultural History
provides a comprehensive and insightful overview of this burgeoning
field which will be important reading for all students and scholars
of social and cultural history and historiography.
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