The Ghost by Susan Owens
A revelatory cultural history revealing what spirits, ghosts and apparitions can tell us about our culture, and about ourselves. Ghosts are woven into the very fabric of life. In Britain, every town, village, and great house has a spectral resident, and their enduring popularity in literature, art, folklore, and film attests to their continuing power to fascinate, terrify, and inspire. Our conceptions of ghosts - the fears they provoke, the forms they take - are connected to the conventions and beliefs of each particular era, from the marauding undead of the Middle Ages to the psychologically charged presences of our own age. The ghost is no less than the mirror of the times. This dazzling new cultural history explores the ghost through the work of an extraordinary range of artists and writers, including William Hogarth, William Blake, Henry Fuseli, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Susan Hiller and Jeremy Deller; John Donne, William Shakespeare, Samuel Pepys, Daniel Defoe, Percy and Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Muriel Spark, Hilary Mantel, and Sarah Waters.
`A lively guide to the most persistent of spooky figures' The Economist; `Illuminating and entertaining, with lavish illustrations and eloquent narration' The Telegraph. ; `The Ghost: A Cultural History is a work of profound scholarship and imaginative engagement, beautifully written and elegantly constructed. It's the finest study of its kind I've read.' - The Literary Review, review by John Harwood.
Dr Susan Owens, formerly Curator of Paintings at the V&A, is an independent scholar. She has published widely on nineteenth-century British art and culture and has a particular interest in drawing and landscape.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781849766463 |
| ISBN 10 | 1849766460 |
| Title | The Ghost |
| Author | Susan Owens |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Tate Publishing |
| Year published | 2019-04-04 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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