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Throughout history, people have reported seeing "ghosts." But the Victorian ghost is in many respects a very different phenomenon from a ghost in Classical Greece, or in medieval Europe. In Appearances of the Dead, R.C. Finucane surveys reports of ghosts from ancient Greece, the early Christian era, The Reformation, The Victorian age, through the twentieth century. He asks such questions as :How have the physical aspects claimed for ghosts varied from age to age? What differences are there in the functions and intentions ascribed to ghosts? How have the changes in the more general beliefs , in religion and science, in particular, influenced the perception of ghosts?
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- PublisherPrometheus Books
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0879752386
- ISBN 13 9780879752385
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages232
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Appearances of the Dead: A Cultural History of Ghosts
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Vg+. 1st Edition. Blue binding with silver lettering on spine. Section of B/W illustrations following page 120. Photos of book on request. Seller Inventory # 017825
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Appearances of the Dead : A Cultural History of Ghosts
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. No signatures. Rubber stamp on endpapers and a couple of other pages, "N.Z. Rationalist Association Inc." Some wear to corners of dust-jacket and ends of dust-jacket spine. Fading to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival cover.; First US edition. [viii], 232 pages. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 227 x 147mm. Illustrated. Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; Classical Ghosts; Christianity and Early-Medieval Revenants; Purgatory, Penance and the Restless Dead in the Later Middle Ages; Reformation Controversies: Demons and Ghosts; Baroque Hauntings of the Seventeenth Century; Enlightenment and 'Atheism'; The Thirst for Immortality; Twentieth-century Ghosts; Index. "Throughout history, people have reported seeing 'ghosts.' But a Victorian ghost is in many respects a very different phenomenon from a ghost in Classical Greece, or medieval Europe. In 'Appearances of the Dead,' R. C. Finucane surveys reports of ghosts from Ancient Greece, the early Christian era, the Reformation, the Victorian age, through the twentieth century." - from dust-jacket blurb. Seller Inventory # 25853
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