Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures viii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction: Victorian Ghosts 1
6. Part I Historical Contexts
7. Chapter 1 Gothic Fiction, Romanticism and the Origins of the Nineteenth-Century Ghost Story: 1764–1832 17
8. Chapter 2 The Ghost Story: 1830–70 34
9. Chapter 3 The Ghost Story: 1870–1900 51
10. Chapter 4 Neo-Victorian Unquiet Spirits: Encounters with Nineteenth-Century Ghosts 66
11. Part II Critical Contexts
12. Chapter 5 Economics 85
13. Chapter 6 Ghostly Machines and Mechanical Ghosts: Industrialisation and Victorian Haunting 99
14. Chapter 7 The Ghost Story as Written by Victorian Women Writers 114
15. Chapter 8 The Victorian Ghost Story and Colonialism 129
16. Chapter 9 Religion 146
17. Chapter 10 The Victorian American Ghost Story 160
18. Chapter 11 Victorian Christmas Ghosts 176
19. Part III Authors
20. Chapter 12 Charles Dickens 195
21. Chapter 13 Rudyard Kipling 210
22. Chapter 14 J. Sheridan Le Fanu 225
23. Chapter 15 Margaret Oliphant 241
24. Chapter 16 Charlotte Riddell 255
25. Chapter 17 Vernon Lee 270
26. Chapter 18 Henry James 285
27. Chapter 19 M. R. James 300
28. Part IV Places
29. Chapter 20 Haunted Landscapes 317
30. Chapter 21 Maritime Ghost Stories 332
31. Chapter 22 The Victorian Haunted House 347
32. Chapter 23 Haunted Libraries and Museums 364
33. Chapter 24 Pyramids 379
34. Notes on Contributors 393
35. Index 399