{"product_id":"the-victorian-ghost-story-an-edinburgh-companion-9781399521499","title":"The Victorian Ghost Story: An Edinburgh Companion","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Victorian Ghost Story: An Edinburgh Companion \u003c\/i\u003einvites readers to interrogate the multi-layered, multi-vocal conversations that occur within the Victorian ghost story. Its twenty-four chapters provide a historical overview of the development of the ghost story and explore it in light of the 'new' contexts of the period, including mechanisation, imperialism and changes to the economy. As a much-needed survey of critical work on the ghost story, it features detailed analysis of major Victorian writers such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Charlotte Riddell and Henry James, and it examines the places haunted by Victorian ghosts: haunted houses but also haunted museums, fells, pyramids and seascapes. By engaging with ecocriticism, race, colonialism, class and gender, this interdisciplinary Companion constitutes a significant scholarly contribution to the Victorian ghost story and how it relates to a broader Gothic tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmith, Andrew:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Andrew Smith is Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield, where he co-directs the Centre for the History of the Gothic. He is the author or editor of twenty-six published books including \u003ci\u003eDickens and the Gothic\u003c\/i\u003e (2024), \u003ci\u003eGothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914-1934: The Ghosts of World War One\u003c\/i\u003e (2022; winner of the Allan Lloyd Smith prize), \u003ci\u003eGothic Death 1740-1914: A Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Story 1840-1920: A Cultural History\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), \u003ci\u003eGothic Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2007; revised 2013), \u003ci\u003eVictorian Demons\u003c\/i\u003e (2004) and \u003ci\u003eGothic Radicalism\u003c\/i\u003e (2000).","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51623861616914,"sku":"9781399521499","price":135.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5c59d094-35d2-4510-96f7-568dc229fe9c.jpg?v=1758647260","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-victorian-ghost-story-an-edinburgh-companion-9781399521499","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}