Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

1 Introduction â" The Lady Vanishes: Searching for Evidence of the Ghostly, Stefano Cracolici and Mark Sandy

Part 1 â" Romantic and Victorian Encounters with the Ghostly

2 âStrength in What Remains Behindâ: Wordsworth, Spectral Selves, and the Question of Ageing, Mark Sandy

3 Far More Than a Simple Ghost Story: The Complexity of Algernon Blackwoodâs âChemicalâ (1926), Mike Pincombe

4 Wilhelminian Apparitions Ghosts and Desire between Science, Religion and Art in the German Nineteenth-Century Novel, Nicholas Saul

Part 2 â" Visual and Material Encounters with the Ghostly

5 The Visual Representation of Ghosts in Early Modern Japan, Rosina Buckland

6 Embodied Shadows: Sculpted Memory, Sensed Presence, and the Third Party, Douglas Davies

7 Ghostly Presences: Guillermo del Toroâs Crimson Peak, Ann Davies

Part 3 â" Ghostly Legacies: Modern and Contemporary Encounters

8 Futurist Ghosts, Stefano Cracolici

9 Ghosts in the City: From Baudelaire to Lydie Salvayre and Hilary Mantel, Christopher Lloyd

10 Postscript â" Disavowing Disappointment in the Face of Ghosts From Keatsâ âDestructive Elementâ to Hannah Arendtâs Reading of Conradâs Heart of Darkness or Hegelâs Dialectics as Colonialismâs Revenant in Twentieth-Century Totalitarianism, Michael Mack