Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ross, Stephen

Titel

A History of the Modern British Ghost Story (review)

Ist Teil von

• Modernism/Modernity, 2012, Vol.19 (3), p.616-617

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Nuancing the consensus view that naturalism did not really take hold in England, Hay argues that the late-nineteenth-century ghost story produces a version of what he calls "supernatural naturalism" (91). [...]re-casting Julia Briggs's insight that the turn of the twentieth century produced a shifttowards the psychological ghost story, Hay argues that the naturalist ghost story concerns itself with "the truth of the individual" (92) instead of the social totality. [...]ghosts are liberated from the ghost story and begin to appear everywhere.