The Victorian Supernatural
Herausgeber: Bown, Nicola; Thurschwell, Pamela; Burdett, Carolyn
The Victorian Supernatural
Herausgeber: Bown, Nicola; Thurschwell, Pamela; Burdett, Carolyn
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Essays by literary scholars, art historians and science historians explore the diversity of the Victorians' fascination with the supernatural.
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Essays by literary scholars, art historians and science historians explore the diversity of the Victorians' fascination with the supernatural.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 328
- Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2009
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
- Gewicht: 477g
- ISBN-13: 9780521114646
- ISBN-10: 0521114640
- Artikelnr.: 26153143
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 328
- Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2009
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
- Gewicht: 477g
- ISBN-13: 9780521114646
- ISBN-10: 0521114640
- Artikelnr.: 26153143
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
Bibliography
Index.
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
Bibliography
Index.
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
Bibliography
Index.
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
Bibliography
Index.