Andrew Smith is Professor of English Studies at the University of Glamorgan where he is Co-Director of the Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science (RCLAS)

‘Makes an important contribution to the field of Victorian cultural studies’Simon Hay, Connecticut College, Victorian Studies, Summer 2012

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Seeing the Spectre: an economic theory of the Ghost Story2. Dickens’s Spectres: sight, money and reading the ghost story 3. Money and Machines: Wilkie Collins’s ghosts 4. Love, Money, and History: The Female Ghost Story 5. Reading ghosts and reading texts: spiritualism 6. Haunted Houses and History: Henry James’s Anglo-American Ghosts 7. Colonial ghosts: mimicry, history, and laughter 8. M.R. James’s Gothic Revival ConclusionBibliography

Andrew Smith is Professor of English Studies at the University of Glamorgan where he is Co-Director of the Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science (RCLAS)

‘Makes an important contribution to the field of Victorian cultural studies’Simon Hay, Connecticut College, Victorian Studies, Summer 2012

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Seeing the Spectre: an economic theory of the Ghost Story2. Dickens’s Spectres: sight, money and reading the ghost story 3. Money and Machines: Wilkie Collins’s ghosts 4. Love, Money, and History: The Female Ghost Story 5. Reading ghosts and reading texts: spiritualism 6. Haunted Houses and History: Henry James’s Anglo-American Ghosts 7. Colonial ghosts: mimicry, history, and laughter 8. M.R. James’s Gothic Revival ConclusionBibliography

Andrew Smith is Professor of English Studies at the University of Glamorgan where he is Co-Director of the Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science (RCLAS)

‘Makes an important contribution to the field of Victorian cultural studies’Simon Hay, Connecticut College, Victorian Studies, Summer 2012

• Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Seeing the Spectre: an economic theory of the Ghost Story2. Dickens’s Spectres: sight, money and reading the ghost story 3. Money and Machines: Wilkie Collins’s ghosts 4. Love, Money, and History: The Female Ghost Story 5. Reading ghosts and reading texts: spiritualism 6. Haunted Houses and History: Henry James’s Anglo-American Ghosts 7. Colonial ghosts: mimicry, history, and laughter 8. M.R. James’s Gothic Revival ConclusionBibliography