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Title: GHOST A CULTURAL HISTORY
By: SUSAN OWENS
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 1849764670
ISBN 13: 9781849764674
Publisher: TATE GALLERY PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 1 October, 2017
Pages: 240
Description: In this broad cultural history, Susan Owens reveals what these spirits and apparitions can tell us about our culture and about ourselves, and explores how ghosts have inhabited a wide range of roles from medieval times to the present day. This book delves into a wealth of literary and artistic sources, including illuminated manuscripts, woodcut engravings, magic- lantern slides, paintings, prints, poems, novels and stories.
Synopsis: "Five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has even been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it." --Samuel Johnson Ghosts are woven into the very fabric of life. In Britain, every town, village, and great house has a spectral resident, and their enduring popularity in literature, art, folklore, and film attests to their continuing power to fascinate, terrify, and inspire. Our conceptions of ghosts--the fears they provoke, the forms they take--are connected to the conventions and beliefs of each particular era, from the marauding undead of the Middle Ages to the psychologically charged presences of our own age. The ghost is no less than the mirror of the times. Organized chronologically, this new cultural history features a dazzling range of artists and writers, including William Hogarth, William Blake, Henry Fuseli, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Susan Hiller and Jeremy Deller; John Donne, William Shakespeare, Samuel Pepys, Daniel Defoe, Percy and Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Muriel Spark, Hilary Mantel, and Sarah Waters.
Illustrations: 80 COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
Returns: Returnable
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