1762-1820 : Cock Lane, common sense and morality

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1762-1820 : Cock Lane, common sense and morality

(Ghosts : a social history / editor, Owen Davies, v. 2)

Pickering & Chatto, 2010

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Description

Reveals changing perceptions of ghosts at different social levels from the Reformation through to the twentieth century in Britain and America. This five-volume set focuses on the key published debates that emerged in each century, and illustrates the range of literary formats that reported or discussed ghosts.

Table of Contents

  • Volume 1: 1660-1762: The Enlightenment? The Philosophical Debate Thomas Bromhall, A Treatise of Spectres (1658)
  • John Heydon, The Harmony of the World (1662)
  • Joseph Glanvill, Sadducismus Triumphatus (1681)
  • A Narrative of the Demon of Spraiton (1683)
  • Richard Bovet, Pandaemonium, or the Devil's Cloyster (1684)
  • Richard Baxter, The Certainty of the World of Spirits (1691) Popular Literature The Suffolk Miracle (1670)
  • A True Relation of the Horrid Ghost of a Woman (1673)
  • A Full and True Account of a Strange Apparition (1685)
  • News from Basing-Stoak ([c1685])
  • The Female Ghost (1705) Satire and Politics A Dialogue betwixt the Ghosts of Charls the I, late King of England, and Oliver the late Usurping Protector (1659)
  • A new apparition of S. Edmund-bery Godfrey's Ghost to the E. of D- in the Tower (1681)
  • The Ghost of Tom Ross To his Pupil the D. of Monmouth (1683)
  • Patrick Swift-Sight, A Strange, Unprecedented and Unheard-Of Apparition (1714) End of the Age of Miracles? J Roe, The Certainty of a Future State (1698)
  • [William Assheton], The Possibility of Apparitions (1706)
  • Exact Narrative of Many Surprizing Matters of Fact Uncontestably Wrought by an Evil Spirit or Spirits (1709)
  • The Wonderful Strange Apparition and Ghost of Edward Ashley (1712)
  • Thomas Burnet, A Treatise concerning the State of Departed Souls (1733)
  • Life after Death, or The History of Apparitions, Ghosts, Spirits or Spectres (1758) Volume 2: 1762-1820: Cock Lane, Common Sense and Morality Cock Lane Oliver Goldsmith, The Mystery Revealed (1762)
  • A Seasonable Present To the Renowned Society of Ghost-Mongers (1762)
  • Cock Lane, Humbug [nd]
  • An Authentic, Candid and Circumstantial Narrative of the Astonishing Transactions at Stockwell (1772) Education [Mary Weightman], The Friendly Monitor (1791)
  • Richard Johnson, False Alarms, or, The Mischievous Doctrine of Ghosts and Apparitions (1802)
  • James Plumptre, The Truth of the Popular Notion of Apparitions, or Ghosts, Considered by the Light of Scripture (1818) The Sampford Ghost C C Colton, Sampford Ghost, A Plain and Authentic Narrative (1810)
  • C C Colton, Sampford Ghost, Stubborn Facts against Vague Assertions (1810)
  • John Marriott, Sampford Ghost!!! A Full Account of the Conspiracy (1810)
  • [John Wolcot], The Sampford Ghost, A Poem ([c1810])
  • The Sampford Ghost Surpassed ([c1810]) Cautionary: Popular Morality and Fraud The Ghost (1764)
  • The Portsmouth Ghost ([c1810])
  • A Full Account of a Secret Murder: Brought to Light by the Wonderful Means of a Divine Providence ([1811)]
  • The Power of Conscience Exemplified in the Genuine and Extraordinary Confession of Thomas Bedworth (1815)
  • The Morristown Ghost, or, 'Yankee Trick' ([c1815])
  • Patrick Reardon and James Chorley, An Authentic Narrative of the Mysterious Warnings (1821) Volume 3: 1820-1848: Religion vs Science - The Debate Updated Religious Inspiration: Prophets and Spirits Robert Young, The Entranced Female (1841)
  • William Reid Clanny, A Faithful Record of the Miraculous Case of Mary Jobson (1841)
  • Moses Aaron Richardson, Authentic Account of a Visit to the Haunted House at Willington (1842)
  • Vetus, Wesley's Ghost (1846)
  • Sabin Hough, Remarks on the 'Revelations' of A J Davis ([c1848]) Explaining away Ghosts John Stock, A lecture on the Philosophy of Spectral Appearances ([1839])
  • R Buchanan, The Origin and Nature of Ghosts, Demons and Spectral Illusions Generally (1840)
  • Robert Paterson, An account of Several Cases of Spectral Illusions ([c1843])
  • James Braid, The Power of the Mind over the Body (1846) Volume 4: 1848-1914: Spiritualism and Hauntings Advent D M Dewy, History of the Strange Sounds or Rappings (1850)
  • E Gillson, Table-Talking: Disclosures of Satanic Wonders and Prophetic Signs (1853)
  • John Prichard, A Few Sober Words of Table-Talk about Table-Spirits (1853)
  • John Worth Edmonds, An Appeal to the Public on Spiritualism (1858) Further Developments William H Mumler, Personal Experiences of William H Mumler in Spirit-Photography (1875)
  • William H Harrison, The Moral Status of Certain Psychical and Spiritualistic Organisations (1884)
  • William Stainton Moses, Spiritualism at Home and Abroad (1885)
  • Philosophus, Ghosts and their Modern Worshippers (1892)
  • Elizabeth d'Esperance, What I Know of Materialisations (1904) Reporting Ghosts Henry Johnson Brent, Was it a Ghost? The Murders in Bussey's Wood (1868)
  • Arthur James Melhuish, A Ghostly Annual (1883)
  • H Lewis Scaife, A True Ghost Story, or, Three Nights in a Haunted House (1895)
  • A Selection of Newspaper Reports of Supposed Hauntings: 'A Ghost Story', Leeds Mercury (1812), 'The Juvenal-Street Ghost', Liverpool Mercury (1841), 'The Orton Ghost', Preston Chronicle (1849)
  • 'A "Ghost" at Chelsea' and 'Further Particulars of the "Ghost"', Reynolds's Newspaper (1853), 'The Handborough Ghost', Jackson's Oxford Journal (1857), 'A Murder Revealed by a Ghost, at Kendal', Birmingham Daily Post (1861), 'The "Haunted" Houses in the Borough', Illustrated Police News (1871) Volume 5: Spiritualism during the Great War From the Battlefields N H Barragar, War Lectures from the Spirit World by General Grant and Others (1918)
  • [Harriet McCrory Grove and Mattie Hunt] (eds), A Soldier Gone West (1919) The Last Flourish of the Great Debate Fielding Fielding Ould, Is Spiritualism of the Devil? (1917)
  • E A G and P W S S, True and False Spiritualism (1918)
  • Frederick B Meyer, The Modern Craze of Spiritualism (1919)
  • On the Side of the Angels, The Law v. Spiritualism ([1919])

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  • NCID
    BB0079985X
  • ISBN
    • 9781851969890
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xix, 230 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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