This book isacollection of essays on ghostly fiction by Henry James. The contributors analyze James's use of the ghost story as a subgenre and the difficult theoretical issues that James's texts pose.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2011

ISBN

9780230119840

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Modern Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Cover
Half-Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on the Texts
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction: “I see ghosts everywhere”
1 “The complexion of ever so long ago”: Style and Henry James’s Ghosts
2 Immensities of Perception and Yearning: The Haunting of Henry James’s Heroes
3 Haunting the Churches: Henry James and the Sacred Space in “The Altar of the Dead”
4 Mysterious Tenants: Uncanny Women and the Private or Public Dilemma in the Supernatural Tales
5 John Marcher’s Uncanny Unmanning in “The Beast in the Jungle”
6 Homospectrality in Henry James’s Ghost Stories
7 Second Thoughts: “Queer ‘Maud- Evelyn’”
8 Uncanny Doublings in “Owen Wingrave”
9 The Afterlife of Figures
Epilogue: Ghost Writing
Index