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Women and the Victorian Occult

Editat de Tatiana Kontou
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 dec 2010
Increasingly, contemporary scholarship reveals the strong connection between Victorian women and the world of the nineteenth-century supernatural. Women were intrinsically bound to the occult and the esoteric from mediums who materialised spirits to the epiphanic experiences of the New Woman, from theosophy to telepathy. This volume addresses the various ways in which Victorian women expressed themselves and were constructed by the occult through a broad range of texts. By examining the roles of women as automatic writing mediums, spiritualists, authors, editors, theosophists, socialists and how they interpreted the occult in their life and work, the contributors in this edition return to sensation novels, ghost stories, autobiographies, séances and fashionable magazines to access the visible and invisible worlds of Victorian life. The variety of texts analysed by the authors in this collection demonstrates the many interpretations of the occult in nineteenth-century culture and the ways that women used supernatural imagery and language to draw attention to issues that bore immediate implications on their own lives. Either by catering for the fad of ghost stories or by giving public trance speeches women harnessed the metaphorical and financial forces of the supernatural. As the articles in this book demonstrate the occult was after all a female affair. This book was published as a special issue of Women's Writing.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415613262
ISBN-10: 0415613264
Pagini: 222
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

1.Introduction Tatiana Kontou
2.Life after Death: Apoplexy, Medical Ethics and the Female Undead  Andrew Mangham
3.‘‘‘I thought you was an evil spirit’’’: The Hidden Villain of Lady Audley’s Secret  Elizabeth Lee Steere
4.Beyond These Voices: M. E. Braddon and the Ghost of Sensationalism  Kate Mattacks
5.‘‘Above the breath of suspicion’’: Florence Marryat and the Shadow of the Fraudulent Trance Medium  Georgina O’Brien Hill
6.‘‘God, or something like that’’: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Christian Spiritualism  Roxanne Harde
7.Co-operation and Co-authorship: Automatic Writing, Socialism and Gender in Late Victorian and Edwardian Birmingham  Sarah Edwards
8.‘‘A mere instrument’’ or ‘‘proud as Lucifer’’? Self-Presentations in the Occult Autobiographies by Emma Hardinge Britten (1900) and Annie Besant (1893)  Miriam Wallraven
9.Whose Body? The ‘‘Willing’’ or ‘‘Unwilling’’ Mesmerized Woman in Late Victorian Fiction Susan Poznar
10.The Savage Magnet: Racialization of the Occult Body in Late Victorian Fiction  Sarah Willburn
11. E. Nesbit’s New Woman Gothic - Nick Freeman

Descriere

What kinds of metaphors do spirits, ghosts, mediums, mesmerists, theosophists, spectral actresses, evil servants, dead bodies and vampires offer in understanding womanhood in the nineteenth century? This collection examines the many interpretations of the occult in nineteenth-century culture and the ways that women used supernatural imagery and language to draw attention to issues that bore immediate implications on their own lives. This book was published as a special issue of Women's Writing.