Abstract
List of illustrations Notes on contributors Foreward Gillian Beer Part I. Supernatural Science: 1. Spiritualism, science and the supernatural in mid-Victorian Britain Richard Noakes 2. Investigations and fictions: Charles Dickens and ghosts Louise Henson Part II. Invisible Women: 3. Spectral politics: the Victorian ghost story and the domestic servant Eve M. Lynch 4. George Eliot's prophecies: coercive second sight and everyday thought reading Pamela Thurschwell Part III. Raising the Dead: 5. Browning, the dramatic monologue and the resuscitation of the dead Adam Roberts 6. Baron Corvo and the key to the underworld Colin Cruise Part IV. Envisioning the Unseen: 7. What is the stuff that dreams are made of? Nicola Bown 8. Holman Hunt, William Dyce and the image of Christ Michaela Giebelhausen Part V. Imperial Occult: 9. Knowledge, belief and the supernatural at the imperial margin Roger Luckhurst 10. Romance, reincarnation and Rider Haggard Carolyn Burdett Part VI. Haunted modernism: 11. The origins of modernism in the haunted properties of literature Geoffrey Gilbert 12. Afterword Steven Connor Bibliography Index.
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