The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
ISBN13: 9780192804471ISBN10: 0192804472
Paperback,
528 pages
Mar 2003,
In Stock
Price:
$19.95 (01)Description
In Victorian Ghost Stories , the editors map out the development of the ghost story from 1850 to the early years of the twentieth century and demonstrate the importance of this form of short fiction in Victorian popular culture. As well as reprinting stories by supernatural specialists such as J. S. Le Fanu and M. R. James, this selection emphasizes the key role played by women writers--including Elizabeth Gaskell, Rhoda Broughton, and Charlotte Riddell--and offers one or two genuine rarities. Other writers represented include Charles Dickens, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and R. L. Stevenson. There is also a fascinating Introduction and a chronological list of ghost stories collections from 1850 to 1910.Features
- From Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell, to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Henry James, this book brings together the best of Victorian ghost stories
- Fascinating introduction tracing the development of ghost stories through the period and how they are related to modern tales
- Includes stories previously unpublished in book form
- Includes stories by 12 women writers highlighting their key role in the evolution of the ghost story
- The only chronological anthology of Victorian ghost stories
- The perfect companion to The Oxford Book of Victorian Detective Stories
- 'the perfect literary shop of horrors' (The Observer )
About the Author(s)
Michael Cox is Editor of A Dictionary of Writers and Their Works , and The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories . R. A. Gilbert is a well-known antiquarian bookseller.
