Visions of an Unseen World: Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth Century England (Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World)

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.

• | Author: Sasha Handley
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jan 21, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1138663468
• | ISBN-13: 9781138663466