The Ghost Story from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century: A Ghostly GenreEditors Helen Conrad-O'Briain, Julie Anne Stevens
Publisher Four Courts Press, 2010
ISBN 1846822394, 9781846822391
Length 288 pages
This book gathers together invited papers delivered at a conference held in Trinity College Dublin in October 2008. From the outset, we had planned this work as a book of essays on the ghost story that would reflect the deep professional interest in the genre, whether short story, novella or novel, in the School of English in Trinity.
Contents
Introduction - Julie Anne Stevens
Transformations of the ghost story in post-Reformation England - Peter Marshall
Telling tales in Robert Mannyng deBrun's Handlyng synne - Andrew J. Power
'The gates of hell shall not prevail against it': Laudian Ecclesia and Victorian culture wars in the ghost stories of M.R. James - Helen Conrad O'Briain
Robert Aickman, the ghost story and the idea of Englishness - Darryl Jones
Gendering the ghost story? Victorian women and the challenge of the phantom - Jarlath Killeen
'This voice out of the unseen': love, death, and mourning in the writing of Margaret Oliphant - Elizabeth McCarthy
Sheridan Le Fanu and the spectral empire - Nicholas Allen
The true artistry of Oscar Wilde: sources and style in 'The Canterville ghost' - Anne Markey
Flashlights and fiction: the development of the modern Irish ghost story - Julie Anne Stevens
Things at once spectral and human: Robert Louis Stevenson's ghosts - Jenny McDonnell
Pictures of the floating world: Keri Hulme's post-apocalyptic New Zealand - Melanie Otto
'Taking noiseless turns in the passage': phantoms and floor plans in Henry James' The turn of the screw - Dara Downey
'The consecration of his enterprise': Henry James' 'The real right thing' - Stephen Matterson
Edith Wharton's wartime ghosts - Ann Patten
Hideous doughnuts and haunted housewives: Gothic undercurrents in Shirley Jackson's domestic humour - Bernice M. Murphy
A 'dramar in reel life': freaky dolls, M.R. James and modern children's ghost stories - Jane Suzanne Carroll
Hauntedness: Edgar Allen Poe and Chuck Palahniuk - Philip Coleman
