Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 380 g
Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth Century England
Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 380 g
Reihe: Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World
ISBN: 978-1-138-66346-6
Verlag: Routledge
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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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
