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Visions of an Unseen World : Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth Century England

Part of the Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World series
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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.

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Product Details
Routledge
1138663468 / 9781138663466
Paperback / softback
21/01/2016
United Kingdom
English
304 pages
22 cm
Reprint. Originally published: London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007.