The Victorians gave the English-speaking world a lot of Christmas traditions: trees, the exchange of cards… and, less famously, ghost stories. This week’s episode looks at the historical origins of Victorian England’s Christmas hauntings, and how they expressed the beliefs and anxieties of the age, and even, sometimes, its sense of humor as well.
Podcaster: Lucy
Further Reading
"The Hallowed Christmas Time." The Art World 3:3 (1917): 237-39. Nina Auerbach, “Review: Ghosts of Ghosts.” Victorian Literature and Culture, 32 (2004): 277-284. Bethan Bell, “Frog murder and boiled children: 'Merry Christmas' Victorian style.” E.F. Benson, The Collected Ghost Stories. Edited by Dalby Richards. London: Robinson Publishing, 1992. [Full text of “Between the Lights” here: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605171h.html#ch04] Andrew Caldecott, “Christmas Reunion.” Charles Dickens, “A Christmas Carol.” Various editions. Laura Forsberg, "Nature's Invisibilia: The Victorian Microscope and the Miniature Fairy." Victorian Studies 57:4 (2015): 638-66. M. E. Francis, "Christmas Ghosts." The Irish Monthly 16:175 (1888): 3-9. Elizabeth Gaskell, “The Old Nurse’s Tale.” M. E. Greene, "My First Ghost. A Christmas Experience." All Ireland Review 2:42 (1901): 350-51. W. B. Hannon, "Christmas and Its Folk-Lore." The Irish Monthly 52: 607 (1924): 20-27. Phillip Martin, "CHRISTMAS GHOSTS." Poetry 139:3 (1981): 149. Michael Newton, “Haunted Half-Hours—How the BBC Made Christmas Creepy.” Francis O'Gorman, "Ruskin, Science, and the Miracles of Life." The Review of English Studies n.s. 61:249 (2010): 276-88. Srdjan Smajic, "The Trouble with Ghost-Seeing: Vision, Ideology, and Genre in the Victorian Ghost Story." ELH 70, no. 4 (2003): 1107-135. Andrew Smith, "Dickens' Ghosts: Invisible Economies and Christmas." Victorian Review, 31:2 (2005): 36-55. Jack Sullivan, Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story from LeFanu to Blackwood, Ohio University Press, (1978). Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)
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