New Directions in the Ghost Story, Volume I
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This book provides an exciting and informed overview of new, emerging, and radical approaches to the long ghost story tradition. Interrogating established canons and recurring modes of ghost story analysis, New Directions explores where academic criticism of the genre stands today, and where it might be heading next. The first substantial project of its kind in the field, this two-volume set consists of thirty-three essays presented across two volumes, and presents fresh explorations of the forms, histories, meanings, and media of the ghost story. Volume 1 is comprised of seventeen chapters…mehr

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This book provides an exciting and informed overview of new, emerging, and radical approaches to the long ghost story tradition. Interrogating established canons and recurring modes of ghost story analysis, New Directions explores where academic criticism of the genre stands today, and where it might be heading next. The first substantial project of its kind in the field, this two-volume set consists of thirty-three essays presented across two volumes, and presents fresh explorations of the forms, histories, meanings, and media of the ghost story. Volume 1 is comprised of seventeen chapters organised around two areas of enquiry: Part I: Tradition, Theory and Genre and Part II: Space, Place, and the Ecospectral .
Autorenporträt
Henry Bartholomew is a Lecturer at the Global Banking School, Birmingham. His work explores the ghost story, the Gothic, and weird fiction, and he has edited three story anthologies in these areas. His latest project is a special issue of Gothic Studies on the author Algernon Blackwood. Joan Passey is a Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol, UK, and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. She specialises in representations of coasts and seascapes in literature and culture, especially the Gothic. She regularly appears on BBC Radio 3 and has edited anthologies with the British Library. Jen Baker is a Lecturer in Literature at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the editor of Minor Hauntings: Chilling Tales of Spectral Youth (British Library, 2021). She is working on her first monograph on haunting expression and spectral embodiments of child death in the long nineteenth century.