Description
| Product ID: | 9781849766463 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CN |
| Title: | The Ghost |
| Authors: | Author: Susan Owens |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. Now in paperback, this is a new cultural history of the ghost—one of the most popular and pervasive subjects worldwide. Spanning from the medieval period to today, the book includes a wide range of artists and writers, including Hogarth, Blake, Rossetti, Shakespeare, Pepys, Shelley, and Dickens. Contemporary figures such as Muriel Spark, Hilary Mantel, and Jeremy Deller are also featured. The enduring popularity of ghosts 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Tate Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Tate Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-04-04 |