Henry James and the Supernatural

✍ Scribed by Anna Despotopoulou, Kimberly C. Reed (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 201
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: “I See Ghosts Everywhere”....Pages 1-11
“The Complexion of Ever so Long Ago”....Pages 13-33
Immensities of Perception and Yearning....Pages 35-57
Haunting the Churches....Pages 59-77
Mysterious Tenants....Pages 79-95
John Marcher’s Uncanny Unmanning in “The Beast in the Jungle”....Pages 97-111
Homospectrality in Henry James’s Ghost Stories....Pages 113-136
Second Thoughts....Pages 137-148
Uncanny Doublings in “Owen Wingrave”....Pages 149-164
The Afterlife of Figures....Pages 165-181
Epilogue: Ghost Writing....Pages 183-189
Back Matter....Pages 191-196

✦ Subjects

Nineteenth-Century Literature; Fiction; North American Literature

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