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Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James

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Examines the ghost stories of writer and academic Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936). Focuses on the intersection between his scholarly work and his fiction, arguing that his two careers are intriguingly intertwined.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Terror and Error

Chapter 2: Recasting the Antiquary

Chapter 3: Ex Cathedra

Chapter 4: A Desideratum of Wings

Chapter 5: To the Curious

Afterword: Professions of Reticence

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index


“Until comparatively recently, the prevailing critical consensus on James’s fiction could be characterised by Julia Briggs’s insistence that, though masterfully entertaining and obviously the work of a learned scholar, his tales were superficial edifices with little to offer the serious literary critic. Perhaps paradoxically, in resolutely laying bare the sheer elusiveness of James’s fictions—their absolute refusal to settle into one final ‘meaning’—Murphy has fashioned a rich, allusive study, which demonstrates just how fertile a field for theoretical and historical enquiry these endlessly fascinating tales can be.”

—Dewi Evans, Irish Journal of Gothic & Horror Studies

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