Victorian Hauntings
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Victorian Hauntings
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Author : Julian Wolfreys
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-03-14
Victorian Hauntings written by Julian Wolfreys and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Victorian Hauntings asks its reader to consider the following questions: What does it mean to read or write with ghosts, or to suggest that acts of reading or writing are haunted? In what ways can authors in the nineteenth century be read so as to acknowledge the various phantom effects which return within their texts? In what ways do the traces of such "ghost writing" surface in the works of Dickens, Tennyson, Eliot and Hardy? How does the work of spectrality, revenance and the uncanny transform materially both the forms of the literary in the Victorian era and our reception of it today? Beginning with an expoloration of matters of haunting, the uncanny, the gothic and the spectral, Julian Wolfreys traces the ghostly resonances at work in Victorian writing and how such persistence addresses isues of memory and responsibility which haunt the work of reading. 'Taking the familiar genre of the Gothic as a point of departure and revisiting it through Derridean theory, Wolfreys' book, the first application of "hauntology" to the domain of Victorian Studies is a remarkable achievement. Wolfreys never reduces reading to instrumentality but remains alert to all the potentialities of the texts he reads with a great attention to their idiosyncrasies. Victorian Hauntings should bring a new tone to Victorian Studies, this clever book is quite perfect.' - Jean Michel Rabate, Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania 'You'd have to be dead to know more about ghosts than Julian Wolfreys.' - Martin McQuillan, University of Leeds
The Best Victorian Ghost Stories
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Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-09-04
The Best Victorian Ghost Stories written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-04 with Fiction categories.
Ghostly coaches shuttling the mildewed cadavers of its ill-fated occupants; a young orphan being lured to a frosty death by a pale, little girl with a mangled shoulder; a man spends the night in a room with a fatal past; a restless ne'er-do-well recognizes his fiancee with her throat cut in a twilit vision; a beautiful woman is sold by her uncle to a corpse living beneath a church... These are the images that haunted their authors' brains and found their way into the Golden Age of the British ghost story... As industrial Britain steamed away from its feudal-agrarian past, a sense of self-deceit and insecurity - a lingering of violent potential and national shame - pervaded the collective unconscious of the world's preeminent empire. This psychological malaise manifested itself in the English ghost story, which saw its golden era in the Victorian Age. The unsettling works of Dickens, Gaskell, Blackwood, Hardy, Nesbit, Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Braddon, Broughton, Oliphant, Wells, and Le Fanu grace this brief homage to that unique literary era of elegance, mystique, and horror.
The Victorian Supernatural
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Author : Nicola Bown
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-02-05
The Victorian Supernatural written by Nicola Bown and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-05 with Art categories.
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Haunting And Spectrality In Neo Victorian Fiction
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Author : R. Arias
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-11-27
Haunting And Spectrality In Neo Victorian Fiction written by R. Arias and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Exploring the pervasive presence of the Victorian past in contemporary culture, these essays use the trope of haunting and spectrality as a critical tool with which to consider neo-Victorian works, as well as our ongoing fascination with the Victorians, combining original readings of well-known novels with engaging analyses of lesser-known works.
Victorian Ghost Stories
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Author : Sheridan Le Fanu
language : en
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Release Date : 2024-03-01
Victorian Ghost Stories written by Sheridan Le Fanu and has been published by Arcturus Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-01 with Fiction categories.
By flickering candlelight, these haunting tales were carefully penned by some of greatest writers of the Victorian era, including Sheridan Le Fanu, Catherine Crowe and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The Victorian era has been dubbed the "Golden Age of the Ghost Story", producing some of the most iconic and masterful ghost stories the genre has ever seen. In this exquisite collection, you will find 14 terrifying tales which have been haunting readers for more than a century. Be transported to cobwebbed crypts, creaking manor houses, and dusky moors, where peril lies just around the corner. Includes: • The Dream - Sheridan Le Fanu • The Italian's Story - Catherine Crowe • Eveline's Visitant - Mary Elizabeth Braddon • The Body Snatcher - Rudyard Kipling • And many more! Perfect for horror lovers, these classic ghost stories are sure to terrify and entertain in equal measure.
The Best Victorian Ghost Stories
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Author : Charles Dickens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-07-25
The Best Victorian Ghost Stories written by Charles Dickens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-25 with categories.
Ghostly coaches shuttling the mildewed cadavers of its ill-fated occupants; a young orphan being lured to a frosty death by a pale, little girl with a mangled shoulder; a man spends the night in a room with a fatal past; a restless ne'er-do-well recognizes his fiancee with her throat cut in a twilit vision; a beautiful woman is sold by her uncle to a corpse living beneath a church... These are the images that haunted their authors' brains and found their way into the Golden Age of the British ghost story... As industrial Britain steamed away from its feudal-agrarian past, a sense of self-deceit and insecurity - a lingering of violent potential and national shame - pervaded the collective unconscious of the world's preeminent empire. This psychological malaise manifested itself in the English ghost story, which saw its golden era in the Victorian Age. The unsettling works of Dickens, Gaskell, Blackwood, Hardy, Nesbit, Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Braddon, Broughton, Oliphant, Wells, and Le Fanu grace this brief homage to that unique literary era of elegance, mystique, and horror.
The Victorian Ghost Hunter S Casebook
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Author : Charles Dickens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-12-05
The Victorian Ghost Hunter S Casebook written by Charles Dickens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-05 with History categories.
Untraceable whispering voices.Gnome-like spirits who walk through walls.A room that glows with an eerie, life-draining light.Disembodied footsteps that climb stairs but never descend.A house with doors that open by themselves-even when locked.After a period of strong skepticism among writers and intellects regarding the reality of ghosts, the Victorian era (1837-1901) revitalized interest in seriously exploring houses and other locations alleged to be haunted. The paranormal investigators, including Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, chronicled their methods and discoveries. Equipped with little more than candles, patience, and perhaps a flask of brandy, these men and women laid a foundation for the ghost hunters of today.The Victorian Ghost Hunter's Casebook presents some of the most intriguing, most frightening, and most charming of the chronicles left behind. Ghostlore scholar Tim Prasil provides an Introduction about what motivated the Victorians to investigate spectral manifestations, along with the history of ghost hunters that preceded them. He also provides enlightening details on twelve ghostly cases located in Britain, and an Appendix with two more ghost hunts held in the United States during the Victorian era.
Ghosts Of Old Louisville
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Author : David Domine
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2017-07-11
Ghosts Of Old Louisville written by David Domine and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-11 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Old Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, is the third-largest National Preservation District in the United States and the largest Victorian-era neighborhood in the country. Beneath the balconies and terraces of the district's Gothic, Queen Anne, and Beaux Arts mansions, current residents trade riveting stories about their historic homes. Many of these tales defy rational explanation. When David Dominé moved into one of these houses, he dismissed local rumors of a resident poltergeist named Lucy. However, before long, unnerving, disembodied footsteps and mysterious odors caused him to flee his home in the middle of the night. Since that night, David Dominé not only embraced the possibility of supernatural phenomenon but also turned it into a popular tour series and best-selling collection of books, which have brought new attention to this iconic neighborhood. The book that launched the guided tours, Ghosts of Old Louisville, introduced readers to the hauntingly beautiful Lady of the Stairs and the Widow Hoag, who waits eternally near Fountain Court for a lost child who will never return. These tales of things that go bump in the night not only reveal why Old Louisville is considered the "most haunted neighborhood in America," but also help to preserve this historically and architecturally significant community.
The Haunted Mind
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Author : Elton Edward Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Haunted Mind written by Elton Edward Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with English literature categories.
This collection of original essays is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of the influence of the supernatural on the literature of the Victorian period.
Hauntings And Other Fantastic Tales
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Author : Vernon Lee
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2006-04-11
Hauntings And Other Fantastic Tales written by Vernon Lee and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-11 with Fiction categories.
Vernon Lee writes in the Preface to Hauntings, “My ghosts are what you call spurious ghosts... of whom I can affirm only one thing, that they haunted certain brains, and have haunted, among others, my own.” First published in 1890, Lee’s most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. This collection, which includes the four stories originally published in Hauntings and three others, enables readers to consider Lee’s work anew for its subtle redefinitions of gender and sexuality during the Victorian fin-de-siècle. The appendices, which include extensive excerpts from writings by Lee’s predecessors and peers, including Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, and Lee’s brother Eugene Lee-Hamilton, allow the reader to see how Lee takes on the themes and preoccupations of the late-Victorian period but adapts them to her own purposes.