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Synopsis
This book is a collection of essays on ghostly fiction by Henry James. The contributors analyze James's use of the ghost story as a subgenre and the difficult theoretical issues that James's texts pose.
Synopsis
Introduction: The Ghosts of Henry James; K.C.Reed Voices from Outside and Far Away; P.G.Beidler Style and Henry James's Ghosts; G.Zacharias Immensities of Perception and Yearning: The Haunting of Merton Densher; K.Boudreau Haunted Enclosures - Ghostly Minds: The Private/Public Dilemma in the (Supernatural) Tales; A.Despotopoulou John Marcher's Superstitious Soul and the Uncanny Beast in the Jungle; K.Gentile 'Queer' Maud-Evelyn; K.Ohi 'Remember Bluebeard's Wife': Fairy Tale Residue and the Homosocial Bond in James's Ghost Stories; D.Long Hoeveler Uncanny Doublings in 'Owen Wingrave'; G.Buelens The Great Good Figure; S.Teahan