![]() ![]() The clash between the not-so-distant past and the steam-powered future lead to a tremendous fashion of ghosts, providing a convenient and navigable space for modern Britons to ponder the rapidly developing times that they lived in. These tales generally decided that steam-engines, Darwinian biology, and mass-market publishing may have prettied mankind up a bit, but we were still subject to the same crimes, temptations, and terrors of our agrarian forefathers. ![]() Edwards, and Wilkie Collins, English readers were encouraged to question how far we truly had evolved. ![]() In ghost stories by Charles Dickens, Rhoda Broughton, Mrs. ![]()
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