Women and the Victorian occult / edited by Tatiana Kontou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kontou, Tatiana.

Clyde de Loache Ryals Endowed Acquisition Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Women and spiritualism--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Women and spiritualism.

Occultism--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Occultism.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

vi, 201 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Contents:

Life after death : apoplexy, medical ethics and the female undead / Andrew Mangham

"I thought you was an evil spirit" : the hidden villain of Lady Audley's Secret / Elizabeth Lee Steere

Beyond these voices : M.E. Braddon and the ghost of sensationalism / Kate Mattacks

"Above the breath of suspicion" : Florence Marryat and the shadow of the fraudulent trance medium / Georgina O'Brien Hill

"God, or something like that" : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Christian spiritualism / Roxanne Harde

Co-operation and co-authorship : automatic writing, socialism and gender in late Victorian and Edwardian Birmingham / Sarah Edwards

"A mere instrument" or "proud as Lucifer"? : self-presentations in the occult biographies by Emma Hardinge Britten (1900) and Annie Besant (1893) / Miriam Wallraven

Whose body? : the "willing" or "unwilling" mesmerized woman in late Victorian fiction / Susan Poznar

The savage magnet : racialization of the occult body in late Victorian fiction / Sarah Willburn

E. Nesbit's new woman Gothic / Nick Freeman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Clyde de Loache Ryals Endowed Acquisition Fund.

ISBN:

0415613264

9780415613262

OCLC:

712604705

Publisher Number:

99952777679