Women And The Victorian Occult
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Women And The Victorian Occult
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Author : Tatiana Kontou
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-31
Women And The Victorian Occult written by Tatiana Kontou and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
Increasingly, contemporary scholarship reveals the strong connection between Victorian women and the world of the nineteenth-century supernatural. Women were intrinsically bound to the occult and the esoteric from mediums who materialised spirits to the epiphanic experiences of the New Woman, from theosophy to telepathy. This volume addresses the various ways in which Victorian women expressed themselves and were constructed by the occult through a broad range of texts. By examining the roles of women as automatic writing mediums, spiritualists, authors, editors, theosophists, socialists and how they interpreted the occult in their life and work, the contributors in this edition return to sensation novels, ghost stories, autobiographies, séances and fashionable magazines to access the visible and invisible worlds of Victorian life. The variety of texts analysed by the authors in this collection demonstrates the many interpretations of the occult in nineteenth-century culture and the ways that women used supernatural imagery and language to draw attention to issues that bore immediate implications on their own lives. Either by catering for the fad of ghost stories or by giving public trance speeches women harnessed the metaphorical and financial forces of the supernatural. As the articles in this book demonstrate the occult was after all a female affair. This book was published as a special issue of Women's Writing.
Women And The Victorian Occult
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Author : Tatiana Kontou
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Women And The Victorian Occult written by Tatiana Kontou and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
The Trial Of Woman
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Author : D. Basham
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1992-01-14
The Trial Of Woman written by D. Basham and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-14 with History categories.
The Trial of Woman examines the impact of the nineteenth-century 'Occult Revival' on the Victorian Women's Movement, both in the lives of individual women and in the literature surrounding 'the Woman Question'. The book explores the Victorian Myth of Occult Womanhood and argues that the notion of female occult power was deeply influenced by the advent of Mesmerism, Spiritualism and Theosophy. This myth was itself a determining factor in women's struggle for legal and political rights.
Trial Of Woman
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Author : Diana Basham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Trial Of Woman written by Diana Basham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.
Spiritualism And Women S Writing
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Author : T. Kontou
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-08-26
Spiritualism And Women S Writing written by T. Kontou and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Using a wide range of unexplored archival material, this book examines the 'spectral' influence of Victorian spiritualism and Psychical Research on women's writing, analyzing the ways in which modern writers have both subverted and mimicked nineteenth century sources in their evocation of the séance.
The Trial Of Woman
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Author : Diana Basham
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1992-01-01
The Trial Of Woman written by Diana Basham and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Anyone interested in Women's history, literary studies, or the occult will find this book engaging and valuable.
Spiritualism And Women S Writing
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Author : Tatiana Kontou
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Spiritualism And Women S Writing written by Tatiana Kontou and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with English fiction categories.
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 Micḧle 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 šance. 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.
Strange And Secret Peoples
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Author : Carole G. Silver
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2000-10-12
Strange And Secret Peoples written by Carole G. Silver and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ranging from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the legal, historical, and medical. She is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings who have infiltrated both the literary and visual masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era. Examining the period of 1798 to 1923, Strange and Secret Peoples focuses not only on such popular literary figures as Charles Dickens and William Butler Yeats, but on writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charlotte Mew; on artists as varied as mad Richard Dadd, Aubrey Beardsley, and Sir Joseph Noel Paton; and on artifacts ranging from fossil skulls to photographs and vases. Silver demonstrates how beautiful and monstrous creatures--fairies and swan maidens, goblins and dwarfs, cretins and changelings, elementals and pygmies--simultaneously peopled the Victorian imagination and inhabited nineteenth-century science and belief. Her book reveals the astonishing complexity and fertility of the Victorian consciousness: its modernity and antiquity, its desire to naturalize the supernatural, its pervasive eroticism fused with sexual anxiety, and its drive for racial and imperial dominion.
Victorian Occultism And The Making Of Modern Magic
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Author : A. Butler
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-01-05
Victorian Occultism And The Making Of Modern Magic written by A. Butler and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-05 with History categories.
The late Victorian period witnessed the remarkable revival of magical practice and belief. Butler examines the individuals, institutions and literature associated with this revival and demonstrates how Victorian occultism provided an alternative to the tightening camps of science and religion in a social environment that nurtured magical beliefs.
Victorian Women And The Theatre Of Trance
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Author : Amy Lehman
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10
Victorian Women And The Theatre Of Trance written by Amy Lehman and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Performing Arts categories.
Spiritualists in the nineteenth century spoke of the "Borderland," a shadowy threshold where the living communed with the dead, and where those in the material realm could receive comfort or advice from another world. The skilled performances of mostly female actors and performers made the "Borderland" a theatre, of sorts, in which dramas of revelation and recognition were produced in the forms of seances, trances, and spiritualist lectures. This book examines some of the most fascinating American and British actresses of the Victorian era, whose performances fairly mesmerized their audiences of amused skeptics and ardent believers. It also focuses on the transformative possibilities of the spiritualist theatre, revealing how the performances allowed Victorian women to speak, act, and create outside the boundaries of their restricted social and psychological roles.