The Victorian Supernatural
Part of Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Editors:
- Nicola Bown, Birkbeck College, University of London
- Carolyn Burdett, London Metropolitan University
- Pamela Thurschwell, University College London
- Date Published: June 2009
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521114646
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This collection 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 world and a reality beyond the everyday. These essays demonstrate that the supernatural was not simply a reaction to the "post-Darwinian loss of faith", but was embedded in virtually every aspect of Victorian culture.
Read more- The first collection of essays to explore the diverse forms of the Victorian fascination with the supernatural
- Explores the Victorian supernatural through approaches from literature, history of art and history of science
- Covers a wide range of themes including spiritualism, reincarnation, second sight, telepathy, dreams, ghosts and Christianity
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- Date Published: June 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521114646
- length: 328 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.44kg
- contains: 9 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Foreward Gillian Beer
Part I. Supernatural Science:
1. Spiritualism, science and the supernatural in mid-Victorian Britain Richard Noakes
2. Investigations and fictions: Charles Dickens and ghosts Louise Henson
Part II. Invisible Women:
3. Spectral politics: the Victorian ghost story and the domestic servant Eve M. Lynch
4. George Eliot's prophecies: coercive second sight and everyday thought reading Pamela Thurschwell
Part III. Raising the Dead:
5. Browning, the dramatic monologue and the resuscitation of the dead Adam Roberts
6. Baron Corvo and the key to the underworld Colin Cruise
Part IV. Envisioning the Unseen:
7. What is the stuff that dreams are made of? Nicola Bown
8. Holman Hunt, William Dyce and the image of Christ Michaela Giebelhausen
Part V. Imperial Occult:
9. Knowledge, belief and the supernatural at the imperial margin Roger Luckhurst
10. Romance, reincarnation and Rider Haggard Carolyn Burdett
Part VI. Haunted modernism:
11. The origins of modernism in the haunted properties of literature Geoffrey Gilbert
12. Afterword Steven Connor
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