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Informationen zum Autor Andrew McCann is currently an associate professor in the Department of English at Dartmouth College. He is author of Cultural Politics in the 1790s: Literature, Radicalism and the Public Sphere (1999) and Marcus Clarke's Bohemia: Literature and Modernity in Colonial Melbourne (2004). Klappentext A study of the representation of the occult in late-Victorian popular fiction, exploring different perceptions of authorship and creativity. Zusammenfassung A study of the occult in the popular fiction of the late Victorian period! exploring not only the immense appeal! at that time! of accounts of the paranormal! but also the ways in which ideas of the paranormal seeped into perceptions of authorship and creativity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: popular fiction as media histrionics; 1. Property, professionalism and the pathologies of literature: Walter Besant and the discourse of authorship circa 1890; 2. Dreaming true: aesthetic experience, psychiatric power and the paranormal in George Du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson; 3. Marie Corelli and the spirit of the market; 4. Writing aestheticism through colonial eyes: Rosa Praed and the theosophical novel; 5. Arthur Machen and the 'Differentia of Literature'; Conclusion: the popular fiction of critical theory; Bibliography.
