The Victorian Supernatural

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Nicola Bown, Carolyn Burdett, Pamela Thurschwell
Cambridge University Press, 5 февр. 2004 г. - Всего страниц: 305
The Victorians were haunted by the supernatural, by 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. This collection brings together essays by scholars from literature, history of art and history of science which explore the diversity of the Victorians' fascination with the supernatural. The essays show 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.

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Introduction
1
Spiritualism science and the supernatural
23
Charles Dickens and ghosts
44
the Victorian ghost story
67
coercive second sight
87
Contents
90
Browning the dramatic monologue and the resuscitation
109
Baron Corvo and the key to the underworld
128
Holman Hunt William Dyce and the image of Christ
173
Knowledge belief and the supernatural at the imperial margin
197
Romance reincarnation and Rider Haggard
217
The origins of modernism in the haunted
239
Afterword
258
Bibliography
279
Index
300
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Nicola Bown teaches Victorian literature and art at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature (Cambridge, 2001). Carolyn Burdett is Principal Lecturer in English at London Metropolitan University. She is the author of Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism: Evolution, Gender, Empire (2000). Pamela Thurschwell is a lecturer in English at University College London, She is the author of Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking 1880-1920 (2001) and Sigmund Freud (2000).

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