Miriam Wallraven

Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture

Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book visits the occult in literature from the 1880s to the 20th century, analyzing work by women occultists such as Alice Bailey, Dion Fortune, and Starhawk, and revisiting texts with occult motifs by canonical authors. It covers movements such as Theosophy, Spiritualism, Golden Dawn, Wicca, and Goddess spirituality, engaging with how liter

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780367871383
• ISBN-10: 0367871386
• Artikelnr.: 58482711

Autorenporträt

Miriam Wallraven is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tübingen, Germany. She is the author of A Writing Halfway between Theory and Fiction: Mediating Feminism from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century (2007) and many articles on gender and cultural studies, spirituality and literature, and travel literature.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: "Occultophobia" and Gender Blindness in Cultural and
Literary Studies 2. The Discursive Strategies and Functions of Occult and
Gendered Worlds in Literature 3. "A mere instrument" or "proud as Lucifer"?
Self-Presentations in the Occult Autobiographies of Emma Hardinge Britten
(1900), Annie Besant (1893), and Alice A. Bailey (1951) 4. "She was a witch
by vocation": The Emancipatory Strategies of Occult Transgression in Sylvia
Townsend Warner's Lolly Willowes (1926) 5. "She became a priestess": Occult
Liminality, Psychoanalysis, and the Role of the Text in Dion Fortune's The
Sea Priestess (1938) 6. Unreliable Occultism: Narrating the Occult 7.
Occult Worlds: Utopias and Dystopias of Magical Power 8. Outlook: "Standing
before me she is familiar": Deciphering Esoteric Connections and Feminine
Occult Power in Rose Flint's Poetry 9. The Functions of Occult and
Spiritual Literature