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.
ISBN: | 9781138663466 |
Publication date: | 21st January 2016 |
Author: | Sasha Handley |
Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 304 pages |
Series: | Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World |
Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Horror and Supernatural Fiction Ghosts and poltergeists |