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Tales of troubled dead : ghost stories in cultural history /

What do they want, the ghosts that, even in the age of science, still haunt our storytelling? Catherine Belsey's answer to the question traces Gothic writing and tales of the uncanny from the ancient past to the present - from Homer and the Icelandic sagas to Lincoln in the Bardo. Taking Shakes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Belsey, Catherine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prelude. Changing shapes of Dorothy Dingley
  • Dead king walks
  • Haunted pasts
  • Ghost of Mrs. Milton
  • Women in white
  • Dangerous dead women
  • Unquiet gothic castles
  • Spectres of desire
  • All in the mind?
  • Listening to ghosts
  • Strange to tell
  • Coda. Figurative phantoms.