Tales of the Troubled Dead: Ghost Stories in Cultural History

by Catherine Belsey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147441737X
• ISBN13: 9781474417372
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"