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E-raamat: Visions of an Unseen World: Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth Century England [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

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A study of the production, circulation and consumption of English ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This work examines a variety of mediums: ballads and chapbooks, newspapers, sermons, medical treatises and scientific journals, novels and plays. It relates the telling of ghost stories to changes associated with the Enlightenment.
Introduction: The Ghosts of Early Modern England; 1: Restoration
Hauntings; 2: Printing the Preternatural in the Late Seventeenth Century; 3:
A New Canterbury Tale; 4: Ghost Stories in the Periodical Press, c. 1700c.
1750; 5: Confessional Cultures and Ghost Beliefs, c. 1750c. 1800; 6:
Landscapes of Belief and Everyday Life in Late Eighteenth-Century England;
Conclusion
Sasha Handley