Isabella Bruschi

A cura di I. Bruschi
 
 Six short stories having ghosts and other mysterious presences as their common topic, which are particular and recurring elements of anglophone literature.
 Taken from top-level writers, such as J. S. Le Fanu, C. Dickens, B. Stoker, A. B. Edwards, A. Bierce, W. W. Jacobs, the stories are pervaded by gothic atmospheres and sinister and disquieting figures, typical features of the irrational and supernatural realm.
 Beside the authors’ biographies, extensions on short stories and ghost stories and on historical-cultural aspects connected to the contents of the short stories are found in this book. 
 
 Teacher's Resources available online: Answer Key - Transcripts - Summing-up Activities
 
 Sei storie che hanno come soggetto comune i fantasmi e altre presenze misteriose, elementi peculiari e piuttosto ricorrenti della letteratura anglofona.
 Tratte da autori di grande livello, come J. S. Le Fanu, C. Dickens, B. Stoker, A. B. Edwards, A. Bierce, W. W. Jacobs, le storie sono tutte pervase da atmosfere gotiche e ricche di figure inquietanti e sinistre, tipiche caratteristiche del regno dell’irrazionale e del soprannaturale.
 Oltre alle biografie degli autori sono presenti schede sulle short stories e ghost stories e su aspetti storico-culturali collegati ai contenuti dei vari racconti.

Introduction

Amelia B. Edwards

The Phantom Coach

Extension: The conception of gender in Victorian England

Charles Dickens

To be taken with a Grain of Salt

Extension: Dickens the reformer

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Dickon the devil

Extension: Famous ghosts and haunted places (I)

Bram Stoker

The Judge’s House

Extension: Old dark houses

Ambrose Bierce

The Moonlit Road

Extension: Famous ghosts and haunted places (II)

W.W. Jacobs

The Monkey’s Paw

Extension: The British Empire in India

Rameses II. Her animated and engaging account of the trip was published as A Thousand Miles Up the Nile in 1877. By the end of the trip, Amelia had developed a passion for Egyptology that would become the major work of the rest of her life. When she returned to England, Edwards was determined to promote the cause of Egyptian archaeology. She began planning and promoting the founding of an Egyptological Society. With her expertise in journalism, Edwards was well-placed to arouse public interest in supporting excavation work. She wrote letters soliciting possible supporters, and campaigned for the society by undertaking strenuous lecture tours through England and the United States. A series of such lectures were rewritten and published in book form, as Pharaohs, Fellahs, and Explorers in 1891. Her work was generally respected. She received three honourary degrees: from Columbia College, New York; Smith College, Massachusetts; and the College of the Sisters of Bethany, also in Massachusetts. She also received an English civil list pension for  her services to literature and archaeology.  However, as the field of archaeology increasingly became the province of professional males, her influence decreased. Although saddened, Amelia continued to dedicate herself to the Egypt Exploration Fund. Her happiest and most productive period, however, was over. Her health began to deteriorate after the breaking of an arm during a lecture tour in America, in 1889-1890. Then, in January 1892, she suffered a personal loss: the death of the woman who had travelled with her and shared her West Country home for nearly thirty years. On April 15 of that year, Amelia, too, died, the immediate cause of her death being severe influenza. She left an extensive library of Egyptology and a collection of Egyptian antiquities to University College, London. With it went a bequest of £ 2,500, to establish the first English chair in Egyptology. The rest of her library was given to Somerville College, an early women s college at Oxford. 10 

BEFORE READING   The Phantom Coach 1 Read the title of the story and choose the place where you expect it to take place. In the moorlands in a cottage at the seaside in a town 2 In what period of the year do you think the story takes place? 3 Choose the picture that you imagine represents the title of the story in the best way. 11 

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