ABSTRACT
The Handbook to the Ghost Story sets out to survey and significantly extend a new field of criticism which has been taking shape over recent years, centring on the ghost story and bringing together a vast range of interpretive methods and theoretical perspectives. The main task of the volume is to properly situate the genre within historical and contemporary literary cultures across the globe, and to explore its significance within wider literary contexts as well as those of the supernatural. The Handbook offers the most significant contribution to this new critical field to date, assembling some of its leading scholars to examine the key contexts and issues required for understanding the emergence and development of the ghost story.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section I|70 pages
Ghostly Origins
chapter 4|10 pages
Oscar Wilde in the Fourth Dimension
section II|90 pages
Vital Spirits
chapter 10|10 pages
Haunting Memories
section III|112 pages
Haunted Nations
chapter 22|10 pages
“If You Build It, They Will Come”
section IV|59 pages
Haunting Sites
section V|57 pages
Ghosts on Screen and Stage
section VI|58 pages
Ghosts in Theory
section |11 pages
Coda