Henry James and the Supernatural (Innbundet (stive permer))

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.

Why was Henry James drawn to the supernatural and what narrative purpose did his repeated use of the ghostly fulfill? Covering a wide range of James's fiction and non-fiction, distinguished James scholars deal with the complex ways in which James's interest in the supernatural blends with his philosophical historical and cultural engagement. This volume is the first compilation of essays on this topic and it offers new and exciting readings of the varied ways in which the ghost story's generic conventions both articulate and interrogate the anxieties of turn-of-the-century Anglo-American culture.

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