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The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
Author: Michael Cox (Editor), R. A. Gilbert (Editor)
The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century, fictional ghost stories developed in parallel with the more general Victorian fascination with death and what lay...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780192804471
ISBN-10: 0192804472
Publication Date: 3/7/2003
Pages: 497
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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