Ghostly Encounters

<p>This volume reflects on the ghostly and its varied manifestations including the uncanny the revenant the echo and other forms of artistic allusion. These unsettling presences of the spectral other occur in literature history film and art. The ghostly (and its artistic literary filmic and cultural representations) remains of burgeoning interest and debate to twenty-first century literary critics cultural historians art historians and linguists. Our collection of essays considers the wider implications of these representations of the ghostly and notions of the spectral to define a series of different but inter-related cultural topics (concerned with questions of ageing the uncanny the spectral spiritualism eschatology) which imaginatively testify to our compulsion to search for evidence of the ghostly in our everyday encounters with the material world.</p>