Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Editorial 2
3. Contents 7
4. Acknowledgements 9
5. Introduction
6. The Ghost Story as a Genre: Entertainment, Uncanny Minds, and the Political Dimension of Haunting 20
7. Political Bodies: Empire, Englishness, and the Ideal of Imperial Masculinity 38
8. The Structure of this Book 54
9. Chapter 1 Uncanny Places: Haunted Houses and Male Discomfort
10. Remnants of the Past: History, Architecture, and Gendered Domestic Spaces 58
11. Female Spaces, Monstrous Women, and the Effeminising Effect of Ghost-Seeing in Charlotte Riddell’s “Nut Bush Farm”, Lettice Galbraith’s “A Ghost’s Revenge”, and Algernon Blackwood’s “The Empty House” 65
12. Chapter 2 Spectral Sexualities: Guilty Desire and the Male Sexual Body
13. Closeted Desire: Secrecy, Disclosure, and the Ghost Story 104
14. Homospectrality and Queer Men in Vernon Lee’s “Winthrop’s Adventure” and Henry James’s “The Real Right Thing” 110
15. Longing for the Female Sexual Body: Elizabeth Gaskell’s “The Poor Clare” and Edith Nesbit’s “The Ebony Frame” 129
16. Chapter 3 Weak Men: Adventure, Nationhood, and Degeneration in Imperial Ghost Stories
17. The Construction of a Myth: Displays of Manliness in Imperial Adventure Fiction 154
18. The Gothic Twist: Failing Men in Imperial Ghost Stories by Amelia B. Edwards, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle 166
19. Chapter 4 Male Scepticism and Paternal Ghost-Seeing: Science and Spiritualism in the Ghost Story
20. Ghostly Punishments: Supernatural Forces and the Limits of Scientific Epistemology in Bram Stoker’s “The Judge’s House” and Lettice Galbraith’s “In the Séance Room” 198
21. Spectral Revelations and Manly Sentiment: Margaret Oliphant’s “The Open Door” and Rudyard Kipling’s “They” 217
22. Conclusion 237
23. Bibliography
24. Primary Sources 247
25. Secondary Sources 255