Spiritualism and women's writing
from the fin de sie cle to the neo-Victorian
by Tatiana Kontou
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This original and imaginative study examines the influence of Victorian spiritualism and Psychical Research on a variety of modern and contemporary female authors. It explores both the material and ghostly connections between women's writing - particularly the work of Mich le Roberts, A.S. Byatt, Victoria Glendinning and Sarah Waters - and the practice of mediumship in the nineteenth century. For the first time, it provides a sustained analysis of how and why the haunted world of Victorian spiritualism has been appropriated and reimagined in late twentieth-century fiction. In addition, it shows how many of the apparently unprecedented innovations of modernism are in fact already present in the rituals, performances and documents of the Victorian s ance. Supported by compelling archival research throughout, the book not only demonstrates how a unique selection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts are bound together by phantasmal ties but also shows how spiritualism forces us to reconsider our wider understanding of history, narrative and the afterlife.
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Spiritualism, Frauenliteratur, Literature, European, History and criticism, History, Spiritualism in literature, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM, English fiction, Spiritismus, Women authors, English literature, women authors, English literature, history and criticism, 19th centuryPlaces
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Spiritualism and women's writing: from the fin de sie cle to the neo-Victorian
2009, Palgrave Macmillan
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in English
0230240798 9780230240797
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-236) and index.
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