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Paperback Tales of the Troubled Dead: Ghost Stories in Cultural History Book

ISBN: 147441737X

ISBN13: 9781474417372

Tales of the Troubled Dead: Ghost Stories in Cultural History

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Considers the ways ghost stories appeal to our uneasy relationship with conventional good sense
What do they want, the ghosts that, even in the age of science, still haunt our storytelling? Catherine Belsey's answer to the question traces Gothic writing and tales of the uncanny from the ancient past to the present - from Homer and the Icelandic sagas to Lincoln in the Bardo. Taking Shakespeare's Ghost in Hamlet as a turning...

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