Henry James and the Supernatural

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

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 201
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a collection 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.

✦ 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