[PDF] The Routledge Introduction To The American Ghost Story eBook

Author : Scott Brewster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 15,25 MB
Release : 2024-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1040086896

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This book traces the historical development of the American ghost story from its Indigenous, Puritan, and Enlightenment origins to its heyday in the nineteenth century and continued vibrancy in modern literary and visual culture. It explores the main tropes, thematic preoccupations, principal settings, and stylistic innovations of literary ghost stories in the United States, and the ghost story’s rich afterlife in cinema, television, and digital culture. Throughout, the role played by ghost stories in nation-building, and the questions these tales raise about race, class, sexuality, religion, and science, will be examined. The book examines major practitioners in the field, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Shirley Jackson, Henry James, Stephen King, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, and Edith Wharton, alongside prominent ghost narratives in cinematic, televisual, and online form, including podcasts, gaming, and ghost-hunting apps. This study also gives a new prominence to neglected or less familiar authors, including BIPOC writers, who have helped to shape the American ghost story tradition.

Author : Andrew J. Kunka
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,10 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1040130879

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This accessible, up-to-date textbook covers the history of comics as it developed in the US in all of its forms: political cartoons and newspaper comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, minicomics, and webcomics. Over the course of its six chapters, this introductory textbook addresses the artistic, cultural, social, economic, and technological impacts and innovations that comics have had in American history. Readers will be immersed in the history of American comics—from its origins in 18th-century political cartoons and late 19th-century newspaper strips to the rise of the wildly popular comic book, the radical, grassroots collectives that grew out of the underground comix movement of the 1960s and 1970s, all the way through contemporary longform graphic novels, the vibrant self-publishing scene, and groundbreaking webcomics. The Routledge Introduction to American Comics guides students, researchers, archivists, and even fans of the medium through a contemporary history of comics, attending to how a diverse range of creators and researchers have advanced the art form in key ways since its inception as a foundational art of American popular culture. In this way, it is uniquely suited to readers engaged in the study of comics, as well as those interested in the creation of comics and graphic narratives.

Author : M. J. Wayland
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 9781909667136

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Bestselling author and ghost historian MJ Wayland explores America's haunted heritage. As well as visiting some of the most famous ghost cases of the time, the author also uncovers ghost stories that have never seen print in over a hundred and fifty years! From the downright chilling, to scary and the weird, this collection of REAL ghost stories is ideal for a Halloween thrill or an insight into a unique haunted history. The real life ghost cases include: Faces in the Windows The Haunted Bedstead The Ghost Clock of Boston Poor Bessie Brown The Jonah Three Stories of Hauntings Good News for Ghosts Des Moines's Plague of Ghosts Shooting a Ghost A Live Spook The Return of Dr. Jewel Forbes Manor Ghosts in the Capitol Jonelle Lambkin Rings the Bell Mrs. Warfield's Haunted House Mumler's Spirit Photography Scared to Death by a Ghost The Bones of Timothy Felt A Ghost Hunt of Louisville The Ghost of Henry Smith Giant Ghost of Benton A Real life Daphne and Velma - Sixty Years Before! The Haunted Chamber Investigation of a haunted church The Haunting of Clara Robertson Hoffman Family Poltergeist Indiana Ghost Frenzy The Tipton Ghost An Indianapolis Haunted House Piano-Maker's Ghost The Restless Spirit of Flatbush Return of the Union Officer In Search of a Spectral Calf Unseen Terror of Dubuque The White Mountain Ghost of Lizzie Bourne A Seance Too Far Benjamin Stiver's Ghost Attack! The Big Joke Death by Ghost A Civil War Ghost Story AND MORE!"

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 36,70 MB
Release : 2021-12-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781032242019

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The Handbook to the Ghost Story sets out to survey and significantly extend a new field of criticism which has been taking shape over recent years, centring on the ghost story and bringing together a vast range of interpretive methods and theoretical perspectives. The main task of the volume is to properly situate the genre within historical and contemporary literary cultures across the globe, and to explore its significance within wider literary contexts as well as those of the supernatural. The Handbook offers the most significant contribution to this new critical field to date, assembling some of its leading scholars to examine the key contexts and issues required for understanding the emergence and development of the ghost story.

Author : Scott Brewster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 40,2 MB
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317288939

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The Handbook to the Ghost Story sets out to survey and significantly extend a new field of criticism which has been taking shape over recent years, centring on the ghost story and bringing together a vast range of interpretive methods and theoretical perspectives. The main task of the volume is to properly situate the genre within historical and contemporary literary cultures across the globe, and to explore its significance within wider literary contexts as well as those of the supernatural. The Handbook offers the most significant contribution to this new critical field to date, assembling some of its leading scholars to examine the key contexts and issues required for understanding the emergence and development of the ghost story.

Author : Hans Holzer
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780880295567

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An examination of over 20 cases of hauntings.

Author : Michael Norman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 2007-09-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780765319685

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A collection of ghost stories passed on by word of mouth throughout American history that recount supernatural events from around the country and throughout history.

Author : M. J. Wayland
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,76 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Ghosts
ISBN :

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"Do the dead still walk America's highways and houses? M.J. Wayland explores America's haunted heritage and takes the reader on a journey through fifty real ghost stories expertly researched from undiscovered archive materials."--back cover. " This book is a snapshot of the ghostly activity reported during the 1800s' but also one that provides an insight into the vast scale of paranormal activity. There are the hoaxes, clairvoyants and very wayout stories but we also gain a keen insight into the big stories of the day. The Robertson family, especially Clara became a local celebrity due to her experiences, the Hoffman family has hundreds (if not thousands ) of visitors traveling many miles to visit their haunted house and we have Mumler's Spririt Photographs that became a sensation in Boston and New York."--back cover

Author : Dan Asfar
Publisher : Ghost House Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781894877312

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A collection of ghost stories from American history.