Full Description
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".
Contents
Chapter 1: At the Borderlands: A Haunted Introduction.- Part I: Tradition, Theory, Genre: New Directions.- Chapter 2: "Endless Time": Hauntology in Philippa Pearce's Tom's Midnight Garden.- Chapter 3: Literary Geography and the Ghost Story: Haunting, Narrative, and Spatiality in Lucy M. Boston's The Children of Green Knowe .- Spectral Sounds: Ghost Stories on Audio Media.- Chapter 5: Unexpected Spectres: Shirley Jackson's Hangsaman as Ghost Story.- Chapter 6: Hauntography: Object-Oriented Ontology and the Ghost Story.- Chapter 7: All That Solid Flesh Melts into Air: The Communist Manifesto as Proletarian Ghost Story.- Chapter 8: The Ghost Story in Latin American Neo-fantastic Literature: Francisco Tario and "Aureola o alvéolo".- Chapter 9: "Something to Share?": Ridiculous Society in BBC's Ghosts Andrew McInnes.- Part II: Space, Place, and the Ecospectral.- Chapter 10: uburban Spirits: G. W. M. Reynolds's The Mysteries of London and the Victorian Haunted-House.- Chapter 11: The Spectral Class: Female Servants in Victorian Ghost Stories Colleen.- Chapter 12: "It Is In Our House Now": Twin Peaks as Televisual Ghost Story.- Chapter 13: The Everyday Ghosts of Interwar England Nick Freeman.- Chapter 14: Graeco-Roman Haunted Sites: "Dark Tourism" in the Ancient.- Chapter 15: Ghost Gear and Cetacean Bodies: Stories of Spectral and Material Entanglement in the Necrocen.
