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Informationen zum Autor Nicola Bown teaches Victorian literature and art at Birkbeck College! University of London. She is the author of Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature (Cambridge! 2001). Carolyn Burdett is Principal Lecturer in English at London Metropolitan University. She is the author of Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism: Evolution! Gender! Empire (2000). Pamela Thurschwell is a lecturer in English at University College London! She is the author of Literature! Technology and Magical Thinking 1880-1920 (2001) and Sigmund Freud (2000). Klappentext Essays by literary scholars! art historians and science historians explore the diversity of the Victorians' fascination with the supernatural. Zusammenfassung The Victorians were haunted by the supernatural. This collection brings together essays by scholars from literature! history of art and history of science! which explore the diversity of the Victorians' fascination with the supernatural. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Foreward Gillian Beer; Part I. Supernatural Science: 1. Spiritualism, science and the supernatural in mid-Victorian Britain Richard Noakes; 2. Investigations and fictions: Charles Dickens and ghosts Louise Henson; Part II. Invisible Women: 3. Spectral politics: the Victorian ghost story and the domestic servant Eve M. Lynch; 4. George Eliot's prophecies: coercive second sight and everyday thought reading Pamela Thurschwell; Part III. Raising the Dead: 5. Browning, the dramatic monologue and the resuscitation of the dead Adam Roberts; 6. Baron Corvo and the key to the underworld Colin Cruise; Part IV. Envisioning the Unseen: 7. What is the stuff that dreams are made of? Nicola Bown; 8. Holman Hunt, William Dyce and the image of Christ Michaela Giebelhausen; Part V. Imperial Occult: 9. Knowledge, belief and the supernatural at the imperial margin Roger Luckhurst; 10. Romance, reincarnation and Rider Haggard Carolyn Burdett; Part VI. Haunted modernism: 11. The origins of modernism in the haunted properties of literature Geoffrey Gilbert; 12. Afterword Steven Connor; Bibliography; Index....
