エディンバラ版 ヴィクトリア朝の幽霊物語必携 The Victorian Ghost Story : An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic)

Smith, Andrew (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2025/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 416 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399521499
• DDC分類 823.087309

Full Description

The Victorian Ghost Story: An Edinburgh Companion invites readers to interrogate the multi-layered, multi-vocal conversations that occur within the Victorian ghost story. Its twenty-four chapters provide a historical overview of the development of the ghost story and explore it in light of the 'new' contexts of the period, including mechanisation, imperialism and changes to the economy. As a much-needed survey of critical work on the ghost story, it features detailed analysis of major Victorian writers such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Riddell and Henry James, and it examines the places haunted by Victorian ghosts: haunted houses but also haunted museums, fells, pyramids and seascapes. By engaging with ecocriticism, race, colonialism, class and gender, this interdisciplinary Companion constitutes a significant scholarly contribution to the Victorian ghost story and how it relates to a broader Gothic tradition.

Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Victorian Ghosts
Andrew Smith

PART I. HISTORICAL CONTEXTS
1. Gothic Fiction, Romanticism and the Origins of the Nineteenth-Century Ghost Story: 1764-1832
Dale Townshend
2. The Ghost Story: 1830-70
Anthony Mandal
3. The Ghost Story, 1870-1900
Nick Freeman
4. Neo-Victorian Unquiet Spirits: Encounters with Nineteenth-Century Ghosts
Marie-Luise Kohlke

PART II. CRITICAL CONTEXTS
5. Economics
Andrew Smith
6. Ghostly Machines and Mechanical Ghosts: Industrialisation and Victorian Haunting
Bridget M. Marshall
7. The Ghost Story as Written by Victorian Women Writers
Lucie Armitt
8. The Victorian Ghost Story and Colonialism
Melissa Edmundson
9. Religion
Alison Milbank
10. The Victorian American Ghost Story
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
11. Victorian Christmas Ghosts
Tara Moore

PART III. AUTHORS
12. Charles Dickens
Scott Brewster
13. Rudyard Kipling
Minna Vuohelainen
14. J. Sheridan Le Fanu
William Hughes
15. Margaret Oliphant
Valerie Sanders
16. Charlotte Riddell
Helena Ifill
17. Vernon Lee
Ardel Haefele-Thomas
18. Henry James
Luke Thurston
19. M. R. James
Roger Luckhurst

PART IV. PLACES
20. Haunted Landscapes
Emma McEvoy
21. Maritime Ghost Stories
Joan Passey
22. The Victorian Haunted House
Emma Liggins
23. Haunted Libraries and Museums
Darryl Jones
24. Pyramids
Andrew Smith

Notes on Contributors
Index