Untertitel:
Thinking About Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750-1920
Autor:
Shane Mccorristine
Herausgeber:
Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsdatum:
22.07.2010
Informationen zum Autor Shane McCorristine is a post-doctoral researcher in the Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin. He has previously published articles on surrealism, children's literature and supernatural fiction. Klappentext Examines the culture of ghost-seeing, arguing that the ghost represents a symbol of the psychological hauntedness of modern experience. Zusammenfassung By examining a vast range of sources! this book considers the sheer variety of ideas of ghost-seeing in England from the Reformation to the twentieth century and argues that the ghost ultimately represented a spectre of the self! a symbol of the psychological hauntedness of modern experience. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. The Dreams of the Ghost-Seers: 1. The haunted mind, 1750-1850; 2. Seeing is believing?: Ghost-seeing and hallucinatory experience; Part II. A Science of the Soul: 3. Ghost-hunting in the Society for Psychical Research; 4. Phantasms of the living and the dead; 5. The concept of hallucination in late-Victorian psychology; Epilogue: towards 1920; Appendix; Bibliography.
Klappentext
Examines the culture of ghost-seeing, arguing that the ghost represents a symbol of the psychological hauntedness of modern experience.
Zusammenfassung
By examining a vast range of sources, this book considers the sheer variety of ideas of ghost-seeing in England from the Reformation to the twentieth century and argues that the ghost ultimately represented a spectre of the self, a symbol of the psychological hauntedness of modern experience.
Inhalt
Introduction; Part I. The Dreams of the Ghost-Seers: 1. The haunted mind, 1750-1850; 2. Seeing is believing?: Ghost-seeing and hallucinatory experience; Part II. A Science of the Soul: 3. Ghost-hunting in the Society for Psychical Research; 4. Phantasms of the living and the dead; 5. The concept of hallucination in late-Victorian psychology; Epilogue: towards 1920; Appendix; Bibliography.
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