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497 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 0192804472
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press (NYC/Oxford)
Publication date: Not specified
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The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century, fictional gho...
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497 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 0192804472
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press (NYC/Oxford)
Publication date: Not specified
Description
The Victorians excelled at telling ghost stories. In an age of rapid scientific progress, the idea of a vindictive past able to reach out and violate the present held a special potential for terror. Throughout the nineteenth century, fictional gho...