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010 $a 2018404149
020 $a9781849764674 (hbk.) :$cNT$1048
050 00$aBF1461$b.O943 2017
082 04$a306.4$222
100 1 $aOwens, Susan,$eauthor.
245 14$aThe ghost :$ba cultural history /$cSusan Owens.
260 $aLondon :$bTate Publishing,$c2017.
300 $a288 p., 24 numbered p. :$bill. (some color), facsimiles ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 271-282) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- The living and the dead -- Questionable shapes -- Ghost for a new age -- Terror and wonder -- Appearances and disappearances -- A haunted century -- Re-inventing ghosts.
520 8 $a[This book] delves into a wealth of literary and artistic sources, including illuminated manuscripts, woodcut engravings, magic-lantern slides, paintings, prints, poems, novels and stories, providing a fresh take on a subject that has fascinated us for centuries. In this broad cultural history, Susan Owens reveals what these spirits and apparitions can tell us about our culture and about ourselves, and explores how ghosts have inhabited a wide range of roles from medieval times to the present day. A dazzling range of artists are featured, including William Blake, Henry Fuseli, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Paul Nash and Jeremy Deller, alongside writers such as John Donne, William Shakespeare, Samuel Pepys, Daniel Defoe, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Hilary Mantel and Sarah Waters.
650 0$aGhosts.
650 0$aGhosts in art.
650 0$aGhosts in literature.
651 0$aGreat Britain$xCivilization.