A History of the Modern British Ghost Story

1. Introduction: Even the Dead Will Not Be Safe
Simon Hay

2. A Failed Modernity: The Ghost Story as the Bad Conscience of the Historical Novel
Simon Hay

3. Fragment and Totality: The Ghost Story and Early Victorian Realism
Simon Hay

4. Supernatural Naturalism: The Golden Age of the Ghost Story
Simon Hay

5. Ghosts That a White Man Can See: The Ghost Story and Empire
Simon Hay

6. ‘I had not Thought Death had Undone so Many’: Modernism and the Ghost
Simon Hay

7. The Ghost Story and Magic Realism
Simon Hay

8. Conclusion: Ghosts and History
Simon Hay

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, History of Britain and Ireland