Visions of an unseen world : ghost beliefs and ghost stories in eighteenth-century England

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Visions of an unseen world : ghost beliefs and ghost stories in eighteenth-century England

by Sasha Handley

(Religious cultures in the early modern world / series editors, Fernando Cervantes, Peter Marshall, Philip Soergel, no. 2)

Pickering & Chatto, 2007

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Visions of an unseen world : ghost beliefs and ghost stories in 18th-century England

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-277) and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • Introduction: The Ghosts of Early Modern England
  • 1: Restoration Hauntings
  • 2: Printing the Preternatural in the Late Seventeenth Century
  • 3: A New Canterbury Tale
  • 4: Ghost Stories in the Periodical Press, c. 1700-c. 1750
  • 5: Confessional Cultures and Ghost Beliefs, c. 1750-c. 1800
  • 6: Landscapes of Belief and Everyday Life in Late Eighteenth-Century England
  • Conclusion

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