Susan Owens, The Ghost: A Cultural History – in York – a Culture interest event taking place on 2018-04-26 19:00:00 in United Kingdom
We are delighted that Susan Owens will be joining us to discuss her fascinating book, The Ghost: A Cultural History.Ghosts are woven into the very fabric of life. In Britain, every town, village, and great house has a spectral resident, and their enduring popularity in literature, art, folklore, and film attests to their continuing power to fascinate, terrify, and inspire. Our conceptions of ghosts – the fears they provoke, the forms they take – are connected to the conventions and beliefs of each particular era, from the marauding undead of the Middle Ages to the psychologically charged presences of our own age. The ghost is no less than the mirror of the times. Organized chronologically, this new cultural history features a dazzling range of artists and writers, including William Hogarth, William Blake, Henry Fuseli, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Susan Hiller and Jeremy Deller; John Donne, William Shakespeare, Samuel Pepys, Daniel Defoe, Percy and Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Muriel Spark, Hilary Mantel, and Sarah Waters.Tickets £3 each, or bundle price of £19 to include a signed copy of the book. Further details: 01904 620784 *RESCHEDULED FROM MARCH 1ST
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