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Catherine Belsey was a critic and cultural historian. After an academic career at Cambridge, Cardiff and Swansea, she visited the University of Derby for discussions with the students. She lived in Cambridge and chaired a range of reading groups in the area on an occasional basis.
'an engaging examination of the persistence of these shivery tales in the western canon, ' --Erica Wagner ""The Financial Times"" A fine reading of ghost stories in the western cultural context ... loaded with perceptive insights and sharp wit. Keeping our doors of perception open in search of the phantoms that exist only in the mind, she lets us rediscover the unresolved tensions of belief and orthodoxy that range across centuries. Belsey's book is a delightful read and the insights it affords the inquisitive reader are bound to be unlimited. The entire book is an instance of haunted writing. --Dr Murali Sivaramakrishnan ""The Hindu"" In Tales of the Troubled Dead Belsey provides a lively and thorough account of a slippery subject. Marshalling a vast range of ghost stories from Homer to the 2017 Man Booker Prize-winner Lincoln in the Bardo, plus a good helping of 'true accounts', she asks what the ghosts of our imaginations do, where and when they appear, how they dress, move and communicate - and how they reflect their times .... Today, as Belsey suggests in an elegant coda, the idea of the ghost is so deeply embedded in our ways of thinking about history, story-telling and our place in the world that we can hardly do without it. --Susan Owens ""Times Literary Supplement""
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