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Spectres of the self : thinking about ghosts and ghost-seeing in England, 1750-1920 /
"Spectres of the Self is a fascinating study of the rich cultures surrounding the experience of seeing ghosts in England from the Reformation to the twentieth century. Shane McCorristine examines a vast range of primary and secondary sources, showing how ghosts, apparitions, and hallucinations...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Spectres of the Self is a fascinating study of the rich cultures surrounding the experience of seeing ghosts in England from the Reformation to the twentieth century. Shane McCorristine examines a vast range of primary and secondary sources, showing how ghosts, apparitions, and hallucinations were imagined, experienced, and debated from the pages of fiction to the case reports of the Society for Psychical Research. By analysing a broad range of themes from telepathy and ghost-hunting to the notion of dreaming while awake and the question of why ghosts wore clothes, Dr McCorristine reveals the sheer variety of ideas of ghost seeing in English society and culture. He shows how the issue of ghosts remained dynamic despite the advance of science and secularism and argues that the ghost ultimately represented a spectre of the self, a symbol of the psychological hauntedness of modern experience"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 275 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-270) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139775946 1139775944 1139781979 9781139781978 9780511779749 0511779747 9781139778985 1139778986 1316087786 9781316087787 1139793365 9781139793360 1107253640 9781107253643 1283715783 9781283715782 1139777467 9781139777469 |