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The Ghost
The Ghost: A Cultural History | Susan Owens
3 posts | 1 read | 1 reading | 6 to read
The Ghost' delves into a wealth of literary and artistic sources, including illuminated manuscripts, woodcut engravings, magic-lantern slides, paintings, prints, poems, novels and stories ? providing a fresh take on a subject that has fascinated us for centuries0In this broad cultural history, Susan Owens reveals what these spirits and apparitions can tell us about our culture and about ourselves, and explores how ghosts have inhabited a wide range of roles from medieval times to the present day.0A dazzling range of artists are featured, including William Blake, Henry Fuseli, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Paul Nash and Jeremy Deller, alongside writers such as John Donne, William Shakespeare, Samuel Pepys, Daniel Defoe, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Hilary Mantel and Sarah Waters.
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TheEllieMo
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I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
This is day 19
#BooksToRead #TBRPile

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Jess_Franzino
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I admit it: I bought this book mostly because it‘s SO beautiful and also on one of my favorite subjects. Saw it in my favorite bookstore last week ,(only one copy there), and couldn‘t get it out of my head, so I finally caved & bought it today. Expect a lot of pics, because the art inside is gorgeous! #ghost #art #history