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The Victorian Supernatural
Author | : Nicola Bown,Carolyn Burdett,Pamela Thurschwell |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2004-02-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0521810159 |
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Supernatural Entertainments
Author | : Simone Natale |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2016-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780271077390 |
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In Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale vividly depicts spiritualism’s rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores its strong connection to the growth of the media entertainment industry in the nineteenth century. He frames the spiritualist movement as part of a new commodity culture that changed how public entertainments were produced and consumed. Starting with the story of the Fox sisters, considered the first spiritualist mediums in history, Natale follows the trajectory of spiritualism in Great Britain and the United States from its foundation in 1848 to the beginning of the twentieth century. He demonstrates that spiritualist mediums and leaders adopted many of the promotional strategies and spectacular techniques that were being developed for the broader entertainment industry. Spiritualist mediums were indistinguishable from other professional performers, as they had managers and agents, advertised in the press, and used spectacularism to draw audiences. Addressing the overlap between spiritualism’s explosion and nineteenth-century show business, Natale provides an archaeology of how the supernatural became a powerful force in the media and popular culture of today.
The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
Author | : Michael Cox,R. A. Gilbert |
Publsiher | : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 9780192804471 |
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Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.
The Devil and the Victorians
Author | : Sarah Bartels |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000348032 |
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In recent decades, there has been a growing recognition of the significance of the supernatural in a Victorian context. Studies of nineteenth-century spiritualism, occultism, magic, and folklore have highlighted that Victorian England was ridden with spectres and learned magicians. Despite this growing body of scholarship, little historiographical work has addressed the Devil. This book demonstrates the significance of the Devil in a Victorian context, emphasising his pervasiveness and diversity. Drawing on a rich array of primary material, including theological and folkloric works, fiction, newspapers and periodicals, and broadsides and other ephemera, it uses the diabolic to explore the Victorians' complex and ambivalent relationship with the supernatural. Both the Devil and hell were theologically contested during the nineteenth century, with an increasing number of both clergymen and laypeople being discomfited by the thought of eternal hellfire. Nevertheless, the Devil continued to play a role in the majority of English denominations, as well as in folklore, spiritualism, occultism, popular culture, literature, and theatre. The Devil and the Victorians will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-century English cultural and religious history, as well as the darker side of the supernatural.
The Victorian Ghost Story and Theology
Author | : Zoe Lehmann Imfeld |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2016-07-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783319302195 |
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This book argues that theology is central to an understanding of the literary ghost story. Victorian ghost stories have traditionally been read in the context of agnosticism – as stories which reveal a society struggling with Christian orthodoxy in a new ‘Enlightened’ world. This book, however, uses theological ideas from St Augustine through to modern theologians to identify a theological journey taken by the protagonists of such stories, and charts each stage of this journey through the short stories it examines. It also proposes a theory of reader participation which creates an imaginary space in which modern epistemology is suspended. The book studies the work of four major authors of the supernatural tale: Arthur Machen, M.R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Henry James.
Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide
Author | : Vanessa D. Dickerson |
Publsiher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 0826210813 |
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An interesting rereading of familiar texts by Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot recovering the historical and literary roots of the supernatural as it appears in each women's work. Dickerson (English, Rhodes College) makes interesting observations about women's changing roles in the 19th century when scientific advancements relegated women to the home as arbiters of the spiritual while men occupied themselves with "rational" invention. Through close readings, she demonstrates how the Brontes, Gaskell, and Eliot resisted this division and, simultaneously, created a spiritual genre of writing traditionally denigrated by critics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Devil and the Victorians
Author | : Sarah Bartels |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2021-03-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781000348040 |
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In recent decades, there has been a growing recognition of the significance of the supernatural in a Victorian context. Studies of nineteenth-century spiritualism, occultism, magic, and folklore have highlighted that Victorian England was ridden with spectres and learned magicians. Despite this growing body of scholarship, little historiographical work has addressed the Devil. This book demonstrates the significance of the Devil in a Victorian context, emphasising his pervasiveness and diversity. Drawing on a rich array of primary material, including theological and folkloric works, fiction, newspapers and periodicals, and broadsides and other ephemera, it uses the diabolic to explore the Victorians' complex and ambivalent relationship with the supernatural. Both the Devil and hell were theologically contested during the nineteenth century, with an increasing number of both clergymen and laypeople being discomfited by the thought of eternal hellfire. Nevertheless, the Devil continued to play a role in the majority of English denominations, as well as in folklore, spiritualism, occultism, popular culture, literature, and theatre. The Devil and the Victorians will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-century English cultural and religious history, as well as the darker side of the supernatural.
Five Victorian Ghost Novels
Author | : Everett Franklin Bleiler |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1971-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486225585 |
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Full texts of "The Uninhabited House" by Riddell; "The Amber Witch" by Meinhold; "Monsieur Maurice" by Edwards; "A Phantom Lover" by Lee; and "The Ghost of Muir House" by Beale. 6 illustrations.