The Victorian Supernatural
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The Victorian Supernatural
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Author : Nicola Bown
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-02-05
The Victorian Supernatural written by Nicola Bown and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-05 with Art categories.
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The Devil And The Victorians
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Author : Sarah Bartels
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-03-04
The Devil And The Victorians written by Sarah Bartels and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-04 with History categories.
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.
Turning The Table
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Author : Bekah June
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-06-09
Turning The Table written by Bekah June and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-09 with categories.
A look at the Victorian supernatural obsession. During the 19th Century the Spiritualist Movement created peace among those mourning and controversy among the skeptical.
Turning The Table
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Author : Bekah June
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-04-30
Turning The Table written by Bekah June and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-30 with categories.
A look at the Victorian supernatural obsession. During the 19th Century the Spiritualist Movement created peace among those mourning and controversy among the skeptical.
The Haunted Mind
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Author : Elton Edward Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Haunted Mind written by Elton Edward Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with English literature categories.
This collection of original essays is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of the influence of the supernatural on the literature of the Victorian period.
Victorian Ghosts In The Noontide
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Author : Vanessa D. Dickerson
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 1996
Victorian Ghosts In The Noontide written by Vanessa D. Dickerson and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with English fiction categories.
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 Victorian Ghost Story And Theology
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Author : Zoe Lehmann Imfeld
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-07-27
The Victorian Ghost Story And Theology written by Zoe Lehmann Imfeld and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 Ghost Stories
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Author : Sheridan Le Fanu
language : en
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Release Date : 2024-03-01
Victorian Ghost Stories written by Sheridan Le Fanu and has been published by Arcturus Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-01 with Fiction categories.
By flickering candlelight, these haunting tales were carefully penned by some of greatest writers of the Victorian era, including Sheridan Le Fanu, Catherine Crowe and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The Victorian era has been dubbed the "Golden Age of the Ghost Story", producing some of the most iconic and masterful ghost stories the genre has ever seen. In this exquisite collection, you will find 14 terrifying tales which have been haunting readers for more than a century. Be transported to cobwebbed crypts, creaking manor houses, and dusky moors, where peril lies just around the corner. Includes: • The Dream - Sheridan Le Fanu • The Italian's Story - Catherine Crowe • Eveline's Visitant - Mary Elizabeth Braddon • The Body Snatcher - Rudyard Kipling • And many more! Perfect for horror lovers, these classic ghost stories are sure to terrify and entertain in equal measure.
The Victorian Ghost Hunter S Casebook
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Author : Charles Dickens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-12-05
The Victorian Ghost Hunter S Casebook written by Charles Dickens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-05 with History categories.
Untraceable whispering voices.Gnome-like spirits who walk through walls.A room that glows with an eerie, life-draining light.Disembodied footsteps that climb stairs but never descend.A house with doors that open by themselves-even when locked.After a period of strong skepticism among writers and intellects regarding the reality of ghosts, the Victorian era (1837-1901) revitalized interest in seriously exploring houses and other locations alleged to be haunted. The paranormal investigators, including Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, chronicled their methods and discoveries. Equipped with little more than candles, patience, and perhaps a flask of brandy, these men and women laid a foundation for the ghost hunters of today.The Victorian Ghost Hunter's Casebook presents some of the most intriguing, most frightening, and most charming of the chronicles left behind. Ghostlore scholar Tim Prasil provides an Introduction about what motivated the Victorians to investigate spectral manifestations, along with the history of ghost hunters that preceded them. He also provides enlightening details on twelve ghostly cases located in Britain, and an Appendix with two more ghost hunts held in the United States during the Victorian era.
The Best Victorian Ghost Stories
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Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-09-04
The Best Victorian Ghost Stories written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-04 with Fiction categories.
Ghostly coaches shuttling the mildewed cadavers of its ill-fated occupants; a young orphan being lured to a frosty death by a pale, little girl with a mangled shoulder; a man spends the night in a room with a fatal past; a restless ne'er-do-well recognizes his fiancee with her throat cut in a twilit vision; a beautiful woman is sold by her uncle to a corpse living beneath a church... These are the images that haunted their authors' brains and found their way into the Golden Age of the British ghost story... As industrial Britain steamed away from its feudal-agrarian past, a sense of self-deceit and insecurity - a lingering of violent potential and national shame - pervaded the collective unconscious of the world's preeminent empire. This psychological malaise manifested itself in the English ghost story, which saw its golden era in the Victorian Age. The unsettling works of Dickens, Gaskell, Blackwood, Hardy, Nesbit, Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Braddon, Broughton, Oliphant, Wells, and Le Fanu grace this brief homage to that unique literary era of elegance, mystique, and horror.