Visions of an Unseen World
Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth Century England
Series: Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World;
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Product details:
- Edition number and title Volume 10
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 1 January 2007
- ISBN 9781851968886
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 216x138 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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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.
MoreTable of Contents:
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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