The ghost story 1840–1920

The ghost story 1840–1920The Ghost Story 1840 1920: A Cultural History is the first book length analysis of the British ghost story in over thirty years. It includes readings of the economic, national, colonial, and gender contexts of the ghost story and provides a new and important critical re evaluation of writers including Dickens, Collins, Henry James, and M. R. James.

The Victorian aquarium investigates the nineteenth-century vogue for home tanks

and peoples

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and focuses on the cultural context of modern British productions which have explored Shakespeare’s troubling depiction of England

when Hitler entered Prague in March 1939

literary and cultural contexts

and ideologies

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to contribute to the shift of paradigm related to the emerging bibliographic ecosystem

sixteen contributors illustrate the power of pragmatism to inform democratic

A study of theatre and sovereignty that situates Shakespeare’s plays in the contraflow between two absolutisms of early modern England: the aesthetic and the political

sheds new light on elite Jewish families in nineteenth-century France