Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story

Scott Brewster is Reader in English at the University of Lincoln, UK. He has published widely on the Gothic, including essays on M. R. James and on the contemporary ghost film, and on modern poetry and Irish Literature. He participated in the British Library’s Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination exhibition in autumn 2014.Luke Thurston is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at Aberystwyth University, UK and Director of the David Jones Centre. He has published widely on Joyce, modernist literature, and psychoanalysis.

"An excellent introduction and overview of critical approaches to a genre often as odd as its spectral denizens. These essays demonstrate that the ubiquity of the ghost story is, in part, what makes the genre compelling, almost a riddle: ghosts are everywhere and nowhere."- Aran Ruth, Supernatural Studies Association

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionScott Brewster and Luke ThurstonSection I. Ghostly OriginsChapter 1. "Gothic and Romantic Ghosts in Novels, Dramas, and the Chapbook" Diane Long Hoeveler Chapter 2. The Ghost Story and the Victorian Literary MarketplaceAnthony MandalChapter 3. The Ghost Story and ScienceSarah BissellChapter 4. Oscar Wilde in the Fourth Dimension: Ghosts, Geometry and the Victorian Crisis of MeaningJarlath KilleenChapter 5. Ghost Stories and Sensation FictionBrittany RobertsChapter 6. Women Writers and Ghost StoriesMelissa EdmundsonChapter 7. The Victorian Ghost Story and the Invention of ChristmasDewi Evans Section II. Vital Spirits Chapter 8. Playful spirits: Charles Dickens and the Ghost StoryClaire WoodChapter 9. J. Sheridan Le FanuAlison MilbankChapter 10. Haunting Memories: Death, Mourning, and Memory in the Ghost Stories of Margaret OliphantElizabeth McCarthyChapter 11. Algernon BlackwoodS. T. JoshiChapter 12. Conan Doyle’s Sceptical Reader: Ghost Stories, Science and Spiritualism Kevin MillsChapter 13. M. R. JamesDarryl JonesChapter 14. Jamesian Ghosts: Romance and HistoryT. J. LustigChapter 15. Vernon LeeOliver TearleChapter 16. "A Roaring and Discontinuous Universe": Edith Wharton’s Modern HauntingsEmily CoitChapter 17. "German has a word for the total effect": Robert Aickman’s Strange StoriesTimothy JonesSection III. Haunted Nations Chapter 18. The English Ghost StoryDavid PunterChapter 19. The Ghost Story in ScotlandTimothy C. BakerChapter 20. Haunted WalesJane AaronChapter 21. The American Ghost StoryJeffrey Andrew WeinstockChapter 22. ‘If You Build It, They Will Come’: The Strange Case of the English-Canadian Ghost StoryCynthia Sugars Chapter 23. The Ghost and the Darkness: Creole Hauntings in Caribbean LiteratureLizabeth Paravisini-Gebert Chapter 24. The Latin American Ghost StoryEnrique Ajuria IbarraChapter 25. "There was more in this darkness": The New Zealand Ghost StoryErin MercerChapter 26. Australian Ghost FictionDavid Ellison and Penelope HoneChapter 27. Strange Ghosts: Asian Reconfigurations of the Chinese Ghost StoryKatarzyna AncutaChapter 28. Indian Ghosts: A Love AffairTabish KhairChapter 29. Shades of Dissent: Notes on Haunting in South African Literary History Rebecca DuncanSection IV. Haunting SitesChapter 30. Haunted LandscapesLucie ArmittChapter 31. Transport and Trauma: Uncanny ModernitiesRalph HarringtonChapter 32. Ghost WalkingScott Brewster Chapter 33. The Ghosts of WarMatt FoleyChapter 34. Haunted HousesNick FreemanChapter 35. The Children’s Ghost StoryBeth RogersSection V. Ghosts On Screen and StageChapter 36. Screening the Spectre: Ghosts on FilmMurray Leeder Chapter 37. Enchanted Visions: Ghostly Media from E.T.A. Hoffmann to Alfred HitchcockElisabeth BronfenChapter 38. Spirits on the Air: Ghosts, Sound and the RadioRichard J. HandChapter 39. Ghosts and TelevisionDerek JohnstonChapter 40. Performing the Ghost Story on the English StageKelly Jones Chapter 41. Cyber-hauntings: The Online Ghost Story and its Cultural NarrativesLorna Piatti-FarnellSection VI. Ghosts in Theory Chapter 42. How Ghosts Became DisgustingPamela K. GilbertChapter 43. Ghostly AnimalsKathryn BirdChapter 44. The Ghost Story and FeminismDiana WallaceChapter 45. "Keeping an Eye On Me": Queer SpectersArdel Haefele-ThomasChapter 46. Postmodern Ghost StoriesMaria BevilleChapter 47. "Dead Letters": Postcolonial Haunting in the Work of a Materialist Gerald GaylardCODAChapter 48. Stories Not like Any Others: Ghosts and the Ethics of LiteratureLuke Thurston Index