The Ghost - Susan Owens

A revelatory cultural history revealing what spirits, ghosts and apparitions can tell us about our culture, and about ourselves. Ghosts are woven into the very fabric of life. In Britain, every town, village, and great house has a spectral resident, and their enduring popularity 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... Zobrazit více