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.
| ISBN: | 9781851968886 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 2007 |
| Author: | Sasha Handley |
| Publisher: | Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 304 pages |
| Series: | Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Horror and Supernatural Fiction Ghosts and poltergeists |