‘The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come': Dickens and spirit photography

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‘The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come': Dickens and spirit photography 51:39

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In my previous lecture to the Society I described how, during the late 19th century, the popular image of the ghost had been transformed by photography. In particular, I showed several ways in which advances in the technology and materials of photography, and the conventions of medieval religious art, influenced significantly the representation of the vaporous or translucent type of apparition (portrayed, fictively, on the left of this picture). In this lecture, I resume my study of the photographic ghost. However, I'll discuss the influence that literary descriptions have had upon it too. And, since the season of good cheer is alarmingly imminent, it seems fitting to focus on what is, certainly, the most well-known literary depiction of ghosts: Charles Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’.

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released May 5, 2021

Personnel: John Harvey.

Context: Paper presented at The Society for Psychical Research, London, UK (December 11, 2003).

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John Harvey Aberystwyth, UK

I’m a practitioner and historian of sound art and visual art, and Emeritus Professor of Art at the School of Art, Aberystwyth University, UK. My research field is the sonic and visual culture of religion. I explore the sonic articulations of the Christian religion by engaging visual, textual, and audible sources, theological and cultural ideas, and systemic and audiovisualogical processes. ... more

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