Ghostly Encounters

1 Introduction - The Lady Vanishes: Searching for Evidence of the Ghostly, Stefano Cracolici and Mark Sandy

Part 1 - Romantic and Victorian Encounters with the Ghostly

2 'Strength in What Remains Behind': Wordsworth, Spectral Selves, and the Question of Ageing, Mark Sandy

3 Far More Than a Simple Ghost Story: The Complexity of Algernon Blackwood's 'Chemical' (1926), Mike Pincombe

4 Wilhelminian Apparitions Ghosts and Desire between Science, Religion and Art in the German Nineteenth-Century Novel, Nicholas Saul

Part 2 - Visual and Material Encounters with the Ghostly

5 The Visual Representation of Ghosts in Early Modern Japan, Rosina Buckland

6 Embodied Shadows: Sculpted Memory, Sensed Presence, and the Third Party, Douglas Davies

7 Ghostly Presences: Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak, Ann Davies

Part 3 - Ghostly Legacies: Modern and Contemporary Encounters

8 Futurist Ghosts, Stefano Cracolici

9 Ghosts in the City: From Baudelaire to Lydie Salvayre and Hilary Mantel, Christopher Lloyd

10 Postscript - Disavowing Disappointment in the Face of Ghosts From Keats' 'Destructive Element' to Hannah Arendt's Reading of Conrad's Heart of Darkness or Hegel's Dialectics as Colonialism's Revenant in Twentieth-Century Totalitarianism, Michael Mack