Ghostly Encounters

Stefano Cracolici is Professor of Italian Art and Literature, Director of the Zurbarán Centrefor Spanish and Latin American Art and Associate Director of the Centre for Poetry andPoetics, at Durham University. He is author of Il ritratto di Archigynia: Filippo Nuvoloni(1441-1478) e il suo Dyalogo d’amore (2009), and co-author, with Stefano Carrai andMonica Marchi, of La letteratura a Siena nel Quattrocento. He is completing a monographon Fabiola: lo spettacolo del martirio (forthcoming, 2020).Mark Sandy is Professor of English at the Durham University. He is a member of the Centrefor Poetry and Poetics, an advisory board member of the Centre for Death and Life Studies,and a co-founding member of the ‘Romantic Dialogues and Legacies’ research group atDurham University. He is author of Poetics of Self and Form in Keats and Shelley (2005) andRomanticism, Memory, and Mourning (2013). His most recent book explores Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism: Aesthetics, Subjectivity and the Environment (2020).

• 1 Introduction – The Lady Vanishes: Searching for Evidence of the Ghostly, Stefano Cracolici and Mark SandyPart 1 – Romantic and Victorian Encounters with the Ghostly2 ‘Strength in What Remains Behind’: Wordsworth, Spectral Selves, and the Question of Ageing, Mark Sandy3 Far More Than a Simple Ghost Story: The Complexity of Algernon Blackwood’s ‘Chemical’ (1926), Mike Pincombe4 Wilhelminian Apparitions Ghosts and Desire between Science, Religion and Art in the German Nineteenth-Century Novel, Nicholas SaulPart 2 – Visual and Material Encounters with the Ghostly5 The Visual Representation of Ghosts in Early Modern Japan, Rosina Buckland6 Embodied Shadows: Sculpted Memory, Sensed Presence, and the Third Party, Douglas Davies7 Ghostly Presences: Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak, Ann DaviesPart 3 – Ghostly Legacies: Modern and Contemporary Encounters8 Futurist Ghosts, Stefano Cracolici9 Ghosts in the City: From Baudelaire to Lydie Salvayre and Hilary Mantel, Christopher Lloyd10 Postscript – Disavowing Disappointment in the Face of Ghosts From Keats’ ‘Destructive Element’ to Hannah Arendt’s Reading of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness or Hegel’s Dialectics as Colonialism’s Revenant in Twentieth-Century Totalitarianism, Michael Mack

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