The Spectral Metaphor

1. Introduction: The Spectral Metaphor
Esther Peeren

2. Forms of Invisibility: Undocumented Migrant Workers as Living Ghosts in Stephen Frears’s Dirty Pretty Things and Nick Broomfield’s Ghosts
Esther Peeren

3. Spectral Servants and Haunting Hospitalities: Upstairs, Downstairs, Gosford Park and Babel
Esther Peeren

4. Spooky Mediums and the Redistribution of the Sensible: Sarah Waters’s Affinity and Hilary Mantel’s Beyond Black
Esther Peeren

5. Ghosts of the Missing: Multidirectional Haunting and Self-Spectralization in Ian McEwan’s The Child in Time and Bret Easton Ellis’s Lunar Park
Esther Peeren

6. Afterword: How to Survive as a Living Ghost?
Esther Peeren

Avainsanat: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Film History, Regional and Cultural Studies, Film and Television Studies