Visions of an Unseen World Visions of an Unseen World
Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World

Visions of an Unseen World

Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth Century England

Sasha Handley
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Publisher Description

A study of the production, circulation and consumption of English ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This work examines a variety of mediums: ballads and chapbooks, newspapers, sermons, medical treatises and scientific journals, novels and plays. It relates the telling of ghost stories to changes associated with the Enlightenment.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2015
September 30
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Taylor & Francis
SELLER
Taylor & Francis Group
SIZE
6.6
MB

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