Spectres of the Self
Shane (IRCHSS CARA Postdoctoral Mobility Fellow, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen) McCorristine
Cambridge University Press, 2010
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By examining a vast range of sources, this book considers the sheer variety of ideas of ghost-seeing in England from the Reformation to the twentieth century and argues that the ghost ultimately represented a spectre of the self, a symbol of the psychological hauntedness of modern experience.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521767989
- ISBN-10
- 0521767989
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2010
- Publication date
- 2010-07-22
- Pages
- 288
- Dimensions
- 235x157x20
- Weight
- 57