The haunted mind : the supernatural in Victorian literature /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Smith, Elton Edward, 1915-2008, Haas, Robert, 1961-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1999.
Subjects:	English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Supernatural in literature. Psychological fiction, English > History and criticism. Ghost stories, English > History and criticism. Horror tales, English > History and criticism. Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Victorian literature and the shifting use of the supernatural / Elton E. Smith and Robert Haas
Winged ghosts: Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the return to the mystical / Elton E. Smith
A Christmas Carol: Giving nursery tales a higher form / Harry Stone
The specter of the self in Franksenstein and Great Expectations / Kath Filmer
Danger and compulsion in The Wind and the Willows, or Toad and Hyde together at last / Roger C. Scholbin
Masquerade: liberties and female power in Le Fanu's Carmilla / Tammis Elise Thomas
Dr. Jekyll's closet / Elaine Showalter
Kipling's key to the haunted chamber / E. M. G. Smith
Caliban in a glass: autoscopic vision in The Picture of Dorian Gray / Nancy Jane Tyson
Pedophiles amidst looming portentousness: Henry James's The Turn of the Screw / Elton E. Smith.