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: | 9781317315247 |
Publication date: | 30th September 2015 |
Author: | Handley, Sasha |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Format: | Ebook (Epub) |