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Victorian ghost stories : an Oxford anthology by Michael Cox; R. A Gilbert; Elizabeth Gaskell; J. S Le Fanu; J. Y Akerman; Dinah Mrs Craik Mulock; Charles Dickens; R. S Hawker; Rhoda Broughton; Henry James; Mrs Henry Wood; George MacDonald; Tom Hood; Mary Elizabeth Braddon; T. S Millington; Wilkie Collins; Amelia B Edwards; Charlotte Riddell; Arthur Conan Doyle; R. L Stevenson; Mary Louisa Molesworth; Rudyard Kipling; B. M Croker; E Nesbit; Rosa Mulholland; Jerome K Jerome; M. R James; W. W Jacobs; Bernard Capes; F. G Loring; Barry Pain; Mary E Wilkins; R. H Benson; Perceval Landon; Algernon Blackwood is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century, fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more general Victorian fascination with death and what lay beyond it. Though they were as much a part of the cultural and literary fabric of the age as imperial confidence, the best of the stories still retain their original power to surprise and unsettle. In Victorian Ghost Stories, the editors map out the development of the ghost story from 1850 to the early years of the twentieth century and demonstrate the importance of this form of short fiction in Victorian popular culture. As well as reprinting stories by supernatural specialists such as J. S. Le Fanu and M. R. James, this selection emphasizes the key role played by women writers--including Elizabeth Gaskell, Rhoda Broughton, and Charlotte Riddell--and offers one or two genuine rarities. Other writers represented include Charles Dickens, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and R. L. Stevenson. There is also a fascinating Int

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Author

Michael Cox; R. A Gilbert; Elizabeth Gaskell; J. S Le Fanu; J. Y Akerman; Dinah Mrs Craik Mulock; Charles Dickens; R. S Hawker; Rhoda Broughton; Henry James; Mrs Henry Wood; George MacDonald; Tom Hood; Mary Elizabeth Braddon; T. S Millington; Wilkie Collins; Amelia B Edwards; Charlotte Riddell; Arthur Conan Doyle; R. L Stevenson; Mary Louisa Molesworth; Rudyard Kipling; B. M Croker; E Nesbit; Rosa Mulholland; Jerome K Jerome; M. R James; W. W Jacobs; Bernard Capes; F. G Loring; Barry Pain; Mary E Wilkins; R. H Benson; Perceval Landon; Algernon Blackwood

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192804471

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Fiction

Rating

4.1 / 5 (683 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14