https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/drjenbaker/activity/ Activity feed for Dr Jen Baker. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:24:13 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 43dc59cfe033387c2b4db0d0122f9a11 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792866/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 02:24:23 +0000 From living dolls to spirits wandering in search of solace or vengeance, the ghostly youth is one of the most enduring phenomena of supernatural fiction, its roots stretching back into the realms of folklore and superstition. In this spine-tingling new collection Jen Baker gathers a selection of the most chilling hauntings and encounters with…[Read more]

]]> 0 b1cd8e141b97890f6e9c34630d49b0b2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792865/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 02:24:22 +0000 From living dolls to spirits wandering in search of solace or vengeance, the ghostly youth is one of the most enduring phenomena of supernatural fiction, its roots stretching back into the realms of folklore and superstition. In this spine-tingling new collection Jen Baker gathers a selection of the most chilling hauntings and encounters with…[Read more]

]]> 0 89a23bad3e417ef286558001b66a795b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792864/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 02:24:10 +0000 In the mid nineteenthcentury, a subgenre of ghost stories emerged that had roots in a hybrid tradition of institutional religious doctrine and oral folkloric expressions of anxiety over the fate of the child’s soul in the afterlife. Given the persistently high infant mortality rates and increased public awareness of child abuse across the c…[Read more]

]]> 0 2d69b8cee7c030fae79d16901cdbc183 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792863/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 02:24:09 +0000 In the mid nineteenthcentury, a subgenre of ghost stories emerged that had roots in a hybrid tradition of institutional religious doctrine and oral folkloric expressions of anxiety over the fate of the child’s soul in the afterlife. Given the persistently high infant mortality rates and increased public awareness of child abuse across the c…[Read more]

]]> 0 ab0cfdb0f08c076cbaf86fba0ea7c804 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792862/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 02:23:54 +0000 in Vision, Contestation and Deception: Interrogating Gender and the Supernatural in Victorian Shorter Fiction, ed. Oindrila Ghosh (Avenel Press, 2021), pp.51-58

]]> 0 c7c648c9b4a505bed6d93ae488e6bd56 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792861/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 02:23:53 +0000 in Vision, Contestation and Deception: Interrogating Gender and the Supernatural in Victorian Shorter Fiction, ed. Oindrila Ghosh (Avenel Press, 2021), pp.51-58

]]> 0 7b2668b8f8b8dfe913379fc65bb0c2b8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792776/ Mon, 05 Sep 2022 14:30:56 +0000 From living dolls to spirits wandering in search of solace or vengeance, the ghostly youth is one of the most enduring phenomena of supernatural fiction, its roots stretching back into the realms of folklore and superstition. In this spine-tingling new collection Jen Baker gathers a selection of the most chilling hauntings and encounters with…[Read more]

]]> 0 702175136d6be546b2017db0e107e107 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792774/ Mon, 05 Sep 2022 14:22:30 +0000 In the mid nineteenthcentury, a subgenre of ghost stories emerged that had roots in a hybrid tradition of institutional religious doctrine and oral folkloric expressions of anxiety over the fate of the child’s soul in the afterlife. Given the persistently high infant mortality rates and increased public awareness of child abuse across the c…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d5159503c299795fe6ee93ae6532e8f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792773/ Mon, 05 Sep 2022 14:18:44 +0000 in Vision, Contestation and Deception: Interrogating Gender and the Supernatural in Victorian Shorter Fiction, ed. Oindrila Ghosh (Avenel Press, 2021), pp.51-58

]]> 0 93396a2db0319c47a818e6164a3b6390 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1724845/ Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:00:10 +0000 0 f7bc9b261115c31d1012f4b361609079 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1694738/ Thu, 02 Jul 2020 12:02:32 +0000 0 f1e2c4af2cc9d9c4a6b53bf824c5b825 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676742/ Thu, 30 Jan 2020 17:26:17 +0000 0 dfc8569e6b5a36191d51303182def4c4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1660717/ Tue, 20 Aug 2019 07:21:34 +0000 0 b39b3fa2ac3c969f57dbf0fbe0a0ef15 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659760/ Tue, 06 Aug 2019 16:26:14 +0000 The aim of this special issue of Gothic Studies (23/3, to be published Nov 2021) is to bring together research that does not simply consider Gothic short fiction and its artistic and cultural brethren as incidental, but integral to the design and effect and/or cultural significance of the piece because the short form in the Gothic tradition has,…[Read more]

]]> 0 b39b3fa2ac3c969f57dbf0fbe0a0ef15 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659759/ Tue, 06 Aug 2019 16:26:14 +0000 The aim of this special issue of Gothic Studies (23/3, to be published Nov 2021) is to bring together research that does not simply consider Gothic short fiction and its artistic and cultural brethren as incidental, but integral to the design and effect and/or cultural significance of the piece because the short form in the Gothic tradition has,…[Read more]

]]> 0 17316fd63e57a5aff153922238193fb3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659722/ Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:10:33 +0000 The aim of this special issue of Gothic Studies (23/3, to be published Nov 2021) is to bring together research that does not simply consider Gothic short fiction and its artistic and cultural brethren as incidental, but integral to the design and effect and/or cultural significance of the piece because the short form in the Gothic tradition has,…[Read more]

]]> 0 3dab60da9bc8ab513e36348cbe97b3c1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659721/ Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:58:57 +0000 0 2b6b36d4d88758530739019be6693ce8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615285/ Sat, 11 Aug 2018 14:36:09 +0000 0 e43fc55dcadf1706d21079fbac8014d7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1582040/ Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:07:42 +0000 0 c292270431f44cd1ae05c4674df6f72f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1579589/ Thu, 24 Aug 2017 12:15:05 +0000 Book review of Ghosts: A Haunted History. Edited by Lisa Morton. London: Reaktion Books, 2015.

]]> 0 8e231e75ecb2683e332c40246104acea https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1579172/ Fri, 18 Aug 2017 17:25:48 +0000 0 5abfc996b23578e7dcc22f2f9437b02e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1575843/ Sat, 15 Jul 2017 09:00:27 +0000 0 85bd8259f826d677d274a766033b69c0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1569795/ Mon, 08 May 2017 14:10:33 +0000 The scholarly cataloguing and study of oral folktales, the evolution of Gothic fiction, the rise of the short story genre, the foundation of the Spiritualist movement, and the uncertainties and potentialities raised by scientific and technological advances, are some of the key influences in the fictional representation and uses of the ghost in…[Read more]

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