The Victorian supernatural /
Brings together essays by scholars from literature, history of art and history of science which explore the diversity of Victorian fascination with the supernatural: ghosts and fairies, table-rappings and telepathic encounters, occult religions and the idea of reincarnation, visions of the other wor...
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| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
42. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Nicola Bown, Carolyn Burdett and Pamela Thurschwell
- I: Supernatural science
- Spiritualism, science and the supernatural in mid-Victorian Britain / Richard Noakes
- Investigations and fictions: Charles Dickens and ghosts / Louise Henson
- II: Invisible women
- Spectral politics: the Victorian ghost story and the domestic servant / Eve M. Lynch
- George Eliot's prophecies: coercive second sight and everyday thought reading / Pamela Thurschwell
- III: Raising the dead
- Browning, the dramatic monologue and the resuscitation of the dead / Adam Roberts
- Baron Corvo and the key to the underworld / Colin Cruise
- IV: Envisioning the unseen
- What is the stuff that dreams are made of? / Nicola Bown
- Holman Hunt, William Dyce and the image of Christ / Michaela Giebelhausen
- V: Imperial occult
- Knowledge, belief and the supernatural at the imperial margin / Roger Luckhurst
- Romance, reincarnation and Rider Haggard / Carolyn Burdett
- VI: Haunted modernism
- The origins of modernism in the haunted properties of literature / Geoffrey Gilbert
- Afterword / Steven Connor.