T. Kontou

Gebundenes Buch

Spiritualism and Women's Writing

From the Fin de Siècle to the Neo-Victorian

Beschreibung

Using a wide range of unexplored archival material, this book examines the 'spectral' influence of Victorian spiritualism and Psychical Research on women's writing, analyzing the ways in which modern writers have both subverted and mimicked nineteenth century sources in their evocation of the séance.

Autor

TATIANA KONTOU is Associate Tutor in English at the University of Sussex, UK. She has previously published an article on Wilkie Collins and Spiritualist practice in Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays (2007) and is the guest editor for a special issue of Women's Writing on 'Women and the Victorian Occult' (2008).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-20005-0
• 2009 edition
• Seitenzahl: 245
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780230200050
• ISBN-10: 0230200052
• Artikelnr.: 25901623

Rezensionen

'Spiritualism and Women's Writing is a thought-provoking book...Clearly, a huge amount of research has gone into this book. It is well written with lots of signposting, and offers some original and interesting readings. For me, it emphasizes how fluid history is, and how important the written word is in recording, and re-recording, these histories.' -Lucy Le-Guilcher, Women: a Cultural Review