The Victorian Ghost Story: An Edinburgh Companion invites readers to interrogate the multi-layered, multi-vocal conversations that occur within the Victorian ghost story. Its twenty-four chapters provide a historical overview of the development of the ghost story and explore it in light of the 'new' contexts of the period, including mechanisation, imperialism and changes to the economy. As a much-needed survey of critical work on the ghost story, it features detailed analysis of major Victorian writers such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Riddell and Henry James, and it examines the places haunted by Victorian ghosts: haunted houses but also haunted museums, fells, pyramids and seascapes. By engaging with ecocriticism, race, colonialism, class and gender, this interdisciplinary Companion constitutes a significant scholarly contribution to the Victorian ghost story and how it relates to a broader Gothic tradition.
| ISBN: | 9781399521499 |
| Publication date: | 31st August 2025 |
| Author: | Andrew Smith |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 416 pages |
| Series: | Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |
The Victorian Ghost Story: An Edinburgh Companion invites readers to interrogate the multi-layered, multi-vocal conversations that occur within the Victorian ghost story. Its twenty-four chapters provide a historical overview of the development of the ghost story and explore it in light of the 'new' contexts of the period, including mechanisation, imperialism and changes to the economy. As a much-needed survey of critical work on the ghost story, it features detailed analysis of major Victorian writers such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Riddell and Henry James, and it examines the places haunted by Victorian ghosts: haunted houses but also haunted museums, fells, pyramids and seascapes. By engaging with ecocriticism, race, colonialism, class and gender, this interdisciplinary Companion constitutes a significant scholarly contribution to the Victorian ghost story and how it relates to a broader Gothic tradition.
The Victorian Ghost Story features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
The Victorian Ghost Story is available in Hardback
The Victorian Ghost Story was written by Andrew Smith and published by Edinburgh University Press
The Victorian Ghost Story has 416 pages
Yes it is part of Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic series
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