The Ghost: A Cultural History by Susan Owens (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Ghost by Susan Owens In this broad cultural history, Susan Owens reveals what spirits and apparitions can tell us about our culture and about ourselves, and explores how ghosts have inhabited a wide range of roles from medieval times to the present day. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A revelatory cultural history revealing what spirits, ghosts and apparitions can tell us about our culture, and about ourselves.Ghosts are woven into the very fabric of life. In Britain, every town, village, and great house has a spectral resident, and their enduring popularity in literature, art, folklore, and film attests to their continuing power to fascinate, terrify, and inspire. Our conceptions of ghosts - the fears they provoke, the forms they take - are connected to the conventions and beliefs of each particular era, from the marauding undead of the Middle Ages to the psychologically charged presences of our own age. The ghost is no less than the mirror of the times. This dazzling new cultural history explores the ghost through the work of an extraordinary range of artists and writers, including William Hogarth, William Blake, Henry Fuseli, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Susan Hiller and Jeremy Deller; John Donne, William Shakespeare, Samuel Pepys, Daniel Defoe, Percy and Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Muriel Spark, Hilary Mantel, and Sarah Waters. Author Biography Dr Susan Owens is an art historian and curator. Formerly Curator of Paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, she has published and lectured widely on British art and co-authored books on decadent interiors, natural history illustration, watercolours, drawings and self-portraits. Review The Ghost: A Cultural History is a work of profound scholarship and imaginative engagement, beautifully written and elegantly constructed. Its the finest study of its kind Ive read. -- John HarwoodA lively guide to the most persistent of spooky figures... This book shows why ghosts have survived amid scientific,political and religious revolutions -- Rachel LloydIlluminating and entertaining, with lavish illustrations and eloquent narration. -- Wendy MooreA scholarly and entertaining survey of ghosts . . . rich in quotes and anecdote. **** -- Laura FreemanA very interesting book -- Tracy Chevalier[Owens] intelligently and engagingly tells the story of each particular ghost . . . she demonstrates the skill ofinterpretation again and again . . . [t]horough research makes Owens the best of guides through the realms of ghostdom -- David Lilington[The Ghost: A Cultural History] both intrigues and informs . . . erudite, insightful and always entertaining, Susan Owenstraces each permutation with consummate skill in a volume as handsome as it is readable. -- Martin Williams Promotional A revelatory cultural history revealing what spirits, ghosts and apparitions can tell us about our culture, and about ourselves. Details ISBN1849766460 Author Susan Owens Pages 288 Publisher Tate Publishing Year 2019 ISBN-10 1849766460 ISBN-13 9781849766463 Format Paperback Imprint Tate Publishing Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 306.4 Publication Date 2019-04-04 Language English Subtitle A Cultural History UK Release Date 2019-04-04 NZ Release Date 2019-04-04 Illustrations 70 Audience General AU Release Date 2019-05-15 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:124151559;

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