Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Seeing the Spectre: an economic theory of the Ghost Story
2. Dickens’s Spectres: sight, money and reading the ghost story
3. Money and Machines: Wilkie Collins’s ghosts
4. Love, Money, and History: The Female Ghost Story
5. Reading ghosts and reading texts: spiritualism
6. Haunted Houses and History: Henry James’s Anglo-American Ghosts
7. Colonial ghosts: mimicry, history, and laughter
8. M.R. James’s Gothic Revival
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the Author

Andrew Smith is Professor of English Studies at the University of Glamorgan where he is Co-Director of the Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science (RCLAS)

Reviews

‘Makes an important contribution to the field of Victorian cultural studies’
Simon Hay, Connecticut College, Victorian Studies, Summer 2012
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