Henry James and the Supernatural

This book fills a gap in critical investigations into Henry James's lesser-known works, specifically his ghostly fiction, and provides new and engaging perspectives. Wide-ranging essays analyze James's use of the ghost story as a subgenre and the difficult theoretical issues that James's texts pose.

Anna Despotopoulou is an Assistant Professor of English Studies at the University of Athens. She is the co-editor of Reconstructing Pain and Joy: Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Perspectives. Kimberly C. Reed is a Professor of English and French at Lipscomb University. She is the editor of The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories and the co-editor, with Peter G. Beidler, of Approaches to Teaching Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw.

Introduction: “I see ghosts everywhere”--Anna Despotopoulou and Kimberly C. Reed * “The complexion of ever so long ago”: Style and Henry James’s Ghosts--Greg Zacharias * Immensities of Perception and Yearning: The Haunting of Henry James’s Heroes--Kristin Boudreau * Haunting the Churches: Henry James and the Sacred Space in “The Altar of the Dead”--Hazel Hutchison * “Mysterious tenants”: Uncanny Women and the Private / Public Dilemma in the Supernatural Tales--Anna Despotopoulou * John Marcher’s Uncanny Unmanning in "The Beast in the Jungle"--Kathy Justice Gentile * Homospectrality in Henry James’s Ghost Stories--Diane Long Hoeveler * Second Thoughts: “Queer ‘Maud-Evelyn’”--Kevin Ohi * Uncanny Doublings in “Owen Wingrave”--Gert Buelens * The Afterlife of Figures--Sheila Teahan * Epilogue: “Ghost writing”--Nicola Bradbury

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Henry James and the Supernatural

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