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020			_a9780511779749 (ebook)
020			_z9780521767989 (hardback)
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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aBF1472.G7 _bM385 2010
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100	1		_aMcCorristine, Shane, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSpectres of the Self : _bThinking about Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750–1920 / _cShane McCorristine.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (288 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aSpectres of the Self is a fascinating study of the rich cultures surrounding the experience of seeing ghosts in England from the Reformation to the twentieth century. Shane McCorristine examines a vast range of primary and secondary sources, showing how ghosts, apparitions, and hallucinations were imagined, experienced, and debated from the pages of fiction to the case reports of the Society for Psychical Research. By analysing a broad range of themes from telepathy and ghost-hunting to the notion of dreaming while awake and the question of why ghosts wore clothes, Dr McCorristine reveals the sheer variety of ideas of ghost seeing in English society and culture. He shows how the issue of ghosts remained dynamic despite the advance of science and secularism and argues that the ghost ultimately represented a spectre of the self, a symbol of the psychological hauntedness of modern experience.
650		0	_aParapsychology
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521767989
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511779749
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
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