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Sasha Handley
Visions of an Unseen World [PDF ebook]
Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth Century England

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A study of the production, circulation and consumption of English ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This work examines a variety of mediums: ballads and chapbooks, newspapers, sermons, medical treatises and scientific journals, novels and plays. It relates the telling of ghost stories to changes associated with the Enlightenment.

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Format PDF ● Pages 304 ● ISBN 9781851965496 ● Maison d’édition Pickering & Chatto Publishers ● Publié 2007 ● Téléchargeable 6 fois ● Devise EUR ● ID 2802869 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM

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