Women and the Victorian Occult (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Kontou, Tatiana

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317982524
• Artikelnr.: 57100148

Autorenporträt

Tatiana Kontou is the author of Spiritualism and Women's Writing: from the fin de siècle to the neo-Victorian and co-editor with Sarah Willburn of The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult. She is currently writing a monograph on Florence Marryat for Edinburgh University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

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