Ghostly Hands and Ghostly Agency: The Changing Figure of the Nineteenth-Century Specter
Ghostly Hands and Ghostly Agency: The Changing Figure of the Nineteenth-Century Specter
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幽灵之手与幽灵机构：十九世纪幽灵的变化形象
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2009
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J. Bann
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本文探讨了在世纪后半叶兴起的招魂运动和鬼故事文学之间的联系。虽然现有的批评文学认为这两种现象是维多利亚时代对超自然和来世可能性的更广泛迷恋的症状，但很少有人关注它们之间的关系。本文主张对1850年后的鬼故事有一个全新的理解，即把文学鬼的外表、行为和代理人解读为一种新的死亡概念的戏剧性表现，这种概念主要是由唯灵论创造的。
This paper investigates the connection between the spiritualist movement and the literary ghost story, both of which came to prominence during the second half of the nineteenth century. While existing critical literature has viewed both phenomena as symptoms of a wider Victorian fascination with the supernatural and the possibility of an afterlife, little attention has been paid to the relationship between them. This paper argues for a fresh understanding of the post-1850 ghost story, one that reads the appearance, behavior, and agency of literary ghosts as a dramatic representation of a new conception of the dead—a conception created largely by spiritualism.