Spiritualism and Women's Writing [electronic resource] : From the Fin de Siècle to the Neo-Victorian /
Kontou, T.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-236) and index.
Theatres in the skull: the society for physical research and actress narratives -- Well-tuned mediums: May Sinclair and Dorothy Richardson -- Phantasms of Florence Cook in Michèle Roberts' In the red kitchen -- Natural and spiritual evolutions: A.S. Byatt's Angels and insects -- The other world illuminated: writing science, text and spirit in Victoria Glendinning's Electricity -- Queering the sèance: Sarah Waters' Affinity.
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.
British literature.
Sociology.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Religion.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
British and Irish Literature.
Gender Studies.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Religious Studies, general.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.