The ghost : a cultural history / Susan Owens.

  • Owens, Susan
Date:
2017
  • Books

Online resources

  • Related material at Wellcome Collection See 33678i: View resource

About this work

Description

"In this rich survey Susan Owens explores the wide range of roles that ghosts have played in Britain's cultural life, looking at how they reflect our changing attitudes, our hopes and fears. Featuring a dazzling range of artists, including William Blake, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Paul Nash, and Jeremy Deller, alongside writers such as William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Hilary Mantel and Sarah Waters." -- Back cover.

Publication/Creation

London : Tate Publishing, 2017.

Physical description

288 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm

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Notes

Page 225 includes a reproduction of an image held in the Wellcome Collection, 'A young woman is sitting in a chair reading a story which has made her nervous. Engraving by R. Graves after R.W. Buss' [see related material at Wellcome Library].

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271 - 282) and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BVU.41
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781849764674
  • 1849764670