A History of the Modern British Ghost Story - by S Hay (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.