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Henry James and the Supernatural

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction: “I See Ghosts Everywhere”

    • Anna Despotopoulou, Kimberly C. Reed
    Pages 1-11
  3. “The Complexion of Ever so Long Ago”

    • Greg Zacharias
    Pages 13-33
  4. Immensities of Perception and Yearning

    • Kristin Boudreau
    Pages 35-57
  5. Haunting the Churches

    • Hazel Hutchison
    Pages 59-77
  6. Mysterious Tenants

    • Anna Despotopoulou
    Pages 79-95
  7. Homospectrality in Henry James’s Ghost Stories

    • Diane Long Hoeveler
    Pages 113-136
  8. Second Thoughts

    • Kevin Ohi
    Pages 137-148
  9. Uncanny Doublings in “Owen Wingrave”

    • Gert Buelens
    Pages 149-164
  10. The Afterlife of Figures

    • Sheila Teahan
    Pages 165-181
  11. Epilogue: Ghost Writing

    • Nicola Bradbury
    Pages 183-189
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 191-196

About this book

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.

Keywords

  • essay
  • fiction
  • Henry James
  • perception
  • style
  • William James

Reviews

"Using an exciting range of contemporary approaches, the contributors to this volume demonstrate convincingly that James s interest in the supernatural was central to his writing - to his acute sense of perceptual boundaries and of our relation to the physical world as well as to his lifelong investigation of the intricacies of memory and desire. For the Jamesian consciousness, the air of reality itself is ghostly." - T.J. Lustig, Senior Lecturer in American Literature, Keele University

"A timely collection, Henry James and the Supernatural extends the discussion of James s engagement with spectrality beyond the familiar ground of The Turn of the Screw, beyond even the rich territory of James s other ghost stories. Invoking the uncanny under a variety of aspects - spatial, sacred, philosophical, Gothic, queer, rhetorical, among others - it stimulatingly shows the suggestiveness of the ghostly, richly bringing out the many ways in which James s profound challenge to usual categories and identities haunts our experience as readers." - Philip Horne, University College London and editor of Henry James: A Life in Letters

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Athens, Greece

    Anna Despotopoulou

  • Lipscomb University, USA

    Kimberly C. Reed

About the editors

ANNA DESPOTOPOULOU is an Assistant Professor of English Studies at the University of Athens, Greece.
KIMBERLY C. REED is a Professor of English and French at Lipscomb University, Nashville, USA.

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