An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions

An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2012-08-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781462281343

Hardcover reprint of the original 1727 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Defoe, Daniel. An Essay On The History And Reality of Apparitions.: Being An Account of What They Are, And What They Are Not; Whence They Come, And Whence They Come Not. As Also How We May Distinguish Between The Apparitions of Good And Evil Spirits And How We Ought To Behave To Them. With A Great Variety of Surprizing And Diverting Examples, Never Publish'D Before. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Defoe, Daniel. An Essay On The History And Reality of Apparitions.: Being An Account of What They Are, And What They Are Not; Whence They Come, And Whence They Come Not. As Also How We May Distinguish Between The Apparitions of Good And Evil Spirits And How We Ought To Behave To Them. With A Great Variety of Surprizing And Diverting Examples, Never Publish'D Before, . London: J. Roberts, 1727. Subject: Apparitions

An essay on the history and reality of apparitions

An essay on the history and reality of apparitions
Author: D. Defoe
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 5871885519

An essay on the history and reality of apparitions. : Being an account of what they are, and what they are not; whence they come, and whence they come not. As also how we may distinguish between the apparitions of good and evil spirits and how we ought to behave to them. With a great variety of surprizing and diverting examples, never publish'd before.

Haunting Experiences

Haunting Experiences
Author: Diane Goldstein
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2007-09-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0874216818

Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.