Ghosts and the Gothic

Introduction: Ruth Heholt and Joanne Ella Parsons
Part I: Origins and histories
1 Speaking from beyond the grave: The many roles of ghosts in early modern English popular literature - Brendan Walsh
2 Unruly subjects: Apparitional property and spectral revenge in 'The Drummer of Tedworth' (1662-63) and its afterlives - Kirsten T. Saxton
3 'It is midnight, my wedded': Queer spectrality in the works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Joseph Crawford
4 Raising the Holy Ghost in the Gothic: Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights - Carol Margaret Davison
5 Ghostly knowing laughter: Comic Gothic in the works of W.S. Gilbert - Rebecca Lloyd
6 Queer spectres of the British Raj - Jamil Mustafa
7 Unsafe spaces: Coercion, control, and the domestic in the ghostly Gothic tales of E. Nesbit - Ruth Heholt
8 Navigating nautical timescapes: Ghosts and haunting in the Victorian and Edwardian maritime world - Karl Bell
Part II: The twentieth century and beyond
9 Dark London, alienation, and female vulnerability in the modernist ghost stories of Violet Hunt and Marie Belloc Lowndes - Emma Liggins
10 'The Companionship of the Dead': Benevolent ghosts in the Irish civil war stories of Dorothy Macardle - Melissa Edmundson
11 'An ill luck on the place': Industrial activity and the vengeful past in three ghost stories by L.T.C. Rolt - William Hughes
12 Cold War politics and spectral recycling: Andrew Klavan's The Uncanny - Andrew Smith
13 Lovely bones and settled scores: Contemporary women's interweaving of ghost and crime stories - Gina Wisker
14 Ghost time: spectral temporalities in Asian Gothic - Katarzyna Ancuta
15 Spectral photographs: Ghostly memories, trauma, and the haunted past in the MCU's Avengers franchise - Lorna Piatti-Farnell
16 Trauma and resilience and being Black in America: the ghosts in Mariama Diallo's Master (2022) and Margaret Brown's Descendant (2022) - Ardel Haefele-Thomas
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