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• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 26,7 Mb
• Release Date : 05 February 2004

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• Publisher : ICON Group International
• File Size : 40,7 Mb
• Release Date : 13 May 1999

This collection of original essays is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of the influence of the supernatural on the literature of the Victorian period.

• Publisher : University of Missouri Press
• File Size : 26,7 Mb
• Release Date : 13 May 1996

An interesting rereading of familiar texts by Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot recovering the historical and literary roots of the supernatural as it appears in each

• Publisher : Penn State Press
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• Release Date : 31 March 2016

In Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale vividly depicts spiritualism’s rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores its strong connection to the growth of the media entertainment industry in

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 53,7 Mb
• Release Date : 27 July 2016

This book argues that theology is central to an understanding of the literary ghost story. Victorian ghost stories have traditionally been read in the context of agnosticism – as stories which

• Publisher : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 13 May 2024

Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.

• Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
• File Size : 29,8 Mb
• Release Date : 13 May 2024

This is a book to be read by a blazing fire on a winter's night, with the curtains drawn close and the doors securely locked. The unquiet souls of the

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 04 March 2021

In recent decades, there has been a growing recognition of the significance of the supernatural in a Victorian context. Studies of nineteenth-century spiritualism, occultism, magic, and folklore have highlighted that

• Publisher : Courier Corporation
• File Size : 45,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 1971

Full texts of "The Uninhabited House" by Riddell; "The Amber Witch" by Meinhold; "Monsieur Maurice" by Edwards; "A Phantom Lover" by Lee; and "The Ghost of Muir House" by Beale. 6

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 35,6 Mb
• Release Date : 13 May 1997

Victorian writers excelled at the ghost story. Here editor Michael Cox brings together well wrought tales of haunted houses, vengeful spirits, spectral warnings, invisible antagonists, and motiveless malignity from beyond