Visions of an Unseen World

Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth Century England

• Author(s): Sasha Handley,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 304
• ISBN_10: 1317315243
  ISBN_13: 9781317315247
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ,

Description:... A study of the production, circulation and consumption of English ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This work examines a variety of mediums: ballads and chapbooks, newspapers, sermons, medical treatises and scientific journals, novels and plays. It relates the telling of ghost stories to changes associated with the Enlightenment.