عنوان

Henry James and the supernatural /

(Number (ISBN

0230115268 (hardback)

(Number (ISBN

9780230115262 (hardback)

Number

b533310

Title Proper

Henry James and the supernatural /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Anna Despotopoulou and Kimberly C. Reed

Edition Statement

First edition

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2011

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 196 pages ;

Dimensions

22 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

Introduction: "I see ghosts everywhere" / Anna Despotopoulou and Kimberly C. Reed -- "The complexion of ever so long ago": style and Henry James's ghosts / Greg Zacharias -- Immensities of perception and yearning: the haunting of Henry James's heroes / Kristin Boudreau -- Haunting the churches: Henry James and the sacred space in "The Altar of the Dead" / Hazel Hutchison -- Mysterious tenants: uncanny women and the private or public dilemma in the supernatural tales / Anna Despotopoulou -- John Marcher's uncanny unmanning in "The Beast in the Jungle" / Kathy Justice Gentile -- Homospectrality in Henry James's ghost stories / Diane Long Hoeveler -- Second thoughts: "Queer 'Maud-Evelyn'" / Kevin Ohi -- Uncanny doublings in "Owen Wingrave" / Gert Buelens -- The afterlife of figures / Sheila Teahan -- Epilogue: ghost writing / Nicola Bradbury

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Text of Note

"This book is a collection of essays on ghostly fiction by Henry James. The contributors analyze James's use of the ghost story as a subgenre and the difficult theoretical issues that James's texts pose"--

James, Henry,1843-1916-- Criticism and interpretation

Ghost stories, American-- History and criticism

Supernatural in literature

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Despotopoulou, Anna

Reed, Kimberly Capps

Date of Transaction

20141128143015.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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