A History of the Modern British Ghost Story

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction: Even the Dead Will Not Be Safe

   • Simon Hay

   Pages 1-27

3. A Failed Modernity: The Ghost Story as the Bad Conscience of the Historical Novel

   • Simon Hay

   Pages 28-56

4. Fragment and Totality: The Ghost Story and Early Victorian Realism

   • Simon Hay

   Pages 57-90

5. Supernatural Naturalism: The Golden Age of the Ghost Story

   • Simon Hay

   Pages 91-123

6. Ghosts That a White Man Can See: The Ghost Story and Empire

   • Simon Hay

   Pages 124-156

7. ‘I had not Thought Death had Undone so Many’: Modernism and the Ghost

   • Simon Hay

   Pages 157-189

8. The Ghost Story and Magic Realism

   • Simon Hay

   Pages 190-226

9. Conclusion: Ghosts and History

   • Simon Hay

   Pages 227-232

10. Back Matter

    Pages 233-253

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Ghost stories are always in conversation with novelistic modes with which they are contemporary. This book examines examples from Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Henry James and Rudyard Kipling, amongst others, to the end of the twentieth century, looking at how they address empire, class, property, history and trauma.

• Charles Dickens
• fragment
• Henry James
• Modernism
• naturalism
• novel
• realism
• Rudyard Kipling
• Victorian era
• British and Irish Literature

• Department of Literatures in English, Connecticut College, USA

  Simon Hay

SIMON J. HAY was educated at Massey University, New Zealand, and Duke University, USA. He teaches Postcolonial Literature and Theory at Connecticut College, USA, and his most recent publications are in Journal x, Radical Philosophy, and Pedagogy.

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