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Ghost : A Cultural History by Susan Owens (2019, Trade Paperback)

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Ghosts are woven into the very fabric of life. In Britain, every town, village, and great house has a spectral resident, and their enduring popularity in literature, art, folklore, and film attests to their continuing power to fascinate, terrify, and inspire.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherTate Publishing, The Limited

ISBN-101849766460

ISBN-139781849766463

eBay Product ID (ePID)9038680247

Product Key Features

Book TitleGhost : a Cultural History

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicFolklore & Mythology, Europe / Great Britain / General, European, Supernatural

Publication Year2019

IllustratorYes

GenreArt, Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science, History

AuthorSusan Owens

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight20.5 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.3 in

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ReviewsThe Ghost: A Cultural History is a work of profound scholarship and imaginative engagement, beautifully written and elegantly constructed. It's the finest study of its kind I've read.

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Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal306.4

SynopsisA revelatory cultural history revealing what spirits, ghosts and apparitions can tell us about our culture, and about ourselves. Ghosts are woven into the very fabric of life. In Britain, every town, village, and great house has a spectral resident, and their enduring popularity in literature, art, folklore, and film attests to their continuing power to fascinate, terrify, and inspire. Our conceptions of ghosts - the fears they provoke, the forms they take - are connected to the conventions and beliefs of each particular era, from the marauding undead of the Middle Ages to the psychologically charged presences of our own age. The ghost is no less than the mirror of the times. This dazzling new cultural history explores the ghost through the work of an extraordinary range of artists and writers, including William Hogarth, William Blake, Henry Fuseli, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Susan Hiller and Jeremy Deller; John Donne, William Shakespeare, Samuel Pepys, Daniel Defoe, Percy and Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Muriel Spark, Hilary Mantel, and Sarah Waters., Now in paperback, this is a new cultural history of the ghost--one of the most popular and pervasive subjects worldwide. Spanning from the medieval period to today, the book includes a wide range of artists and writers, including Hogarth, Blake, Rossetti, Shakespeare, Pepys, Shelley, and Dickens. Contemporary figures such as Muriel Spark, Hilary Mantel, and Jeremy Deller are also featured. The enduring popularity of ghosts in literature, art, folklore, and film attests to their continuing power to fascinate, terrify, and inspire. Our conceptions of ghosts--the fears they provoke, the forms they take--are connected to the conventions and beliefs of each particular era, from the marauding undead of the Middle Ages to the psychologically charged presences of our own age.

LC Classification NumberBF1461.O9 2019