Spectres of Masculinity: Manhood in Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories, 1860-1914

Anna S. Berger

doi:10.14361/9783839440568

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Edition: 1/2025
Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8376-7956-4
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8394-4056-8
Publisher: transcript, Bielefeld
Series: GenderScripts: Literaturwissenschaft & Geschlechterforschung
Volume: 5
Language: German
Pages: 276
Product type: Book Titles

Frontmatter Full access Pages 1 - 1 Download chapter (PDF)
Editorial No access Pages 2 - 6
Contents Full access Pages 7 - 8 Download chapter (PDF)
Acknowledgements No access Pages 9 - 10
The Ghost Story as a Genre: Entertainment, Uncanny Minds, and the Political Dimension of Haunting No access Pages 20 - 38
Political Bodies: Empire, Englishness, and the Ideal of Imperial Masculinity No access Pages 38 - 54
The Structure of this Book No access Pages 54 - 56
Remnants of the Past: History, Architecture, and Gendered Domestic Spaces No access Pages 58 - 65
Female Spaces, Monstrous Women, and the Effeminising Effect of Ghost-Seeing in Charlotte Riddell’s “Nut Bush Farm”, Lettice Galbraith’s “A Ghost’s Revenge”, and Algernon Blackwood’s “The Empty House” No access Pages 65 - 102
Closeted Desire: Secrecy, Disclosure, and the Ghost Story No access Pages 104 - 110
Homospectrality and Queer Men in Vernon Lee’s “Winthrop’s Adventure” and Henry James’s “The Real Right Thing” No access Pages 110 - 129
Longing for the Female Sexual Body: Elizabeth Gaskell’s “The Poor Clare” and Edith Nesbit’s “The Ebony Frame” No access Pages 129 - 150
The Construction of a Myth: Displays of Manliness in Imperial Adventure Fiction No access Pages 154 - 166
The Gothic Twist: Failing Men in Imperial Ghost Stories by Amelia B. Edwards, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle No access Pages 166 - 194
Ghostly Punishments: Supernatural Forces and the Limits of Scientific Epistemology in Bram Stoker’s “The Judge’s House” and Lettice Galbraith’s “In the Séance Room” No access Pages 198 - 217
Spectral Revelations and Manly Sentiment: Margaret Oliphant’s “The Open Door” and Rudyard Kipling’s “They” No access Pages 217 - 236
Conclusion No access Pages 237 - 246
Primary Sources No access Pages 247 - 255
Secondary Sources No access Pages 255 - 276