| Description |
xv, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 42 |
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 42.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-299) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Nicola Bown, Carolyn Burdett and Pamela Thurschwell -- Part I. Supernatural science -- Spiritualism, science and the supernatural in mid-Victorian Britain / Richard Noakes -- Investigations and fictions : Charles Dickens and ghosts / Louise Henson -- Part II. Invisible women -- Spectral politics : the Victorian ghost story and the domestic servant / Eve M. Lynch -- George Eliot's prophecies : coercive second sight and everyday thought reading / Pamela Thurschwell -- Part III. Raising the dead -- Browning, the dramatic monologue and the resuscitation of the dead / Adam Roberts -- Baron Corvo and the key to the underworld / Colin Cruise -- Part IV. Envisioning the unseen -- What is the stuff that dreams are made of? / Nicola Bown -- Holman Hunt, William Dyce and the image of Christ / Michaela Giebelhausen -- Part V. Imperial occult -- Knowledge, belief and the supernatural at the imperial margin / Roger Luckhurst -- Romance, reincarnation and Rider Haggard / Carolyn Burdett -- Part VI. Haunted modernism -- The origins of modernism in the haunted properties of literature / Geoffrey Gilbert -- Afterword / Steven Connor. |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Supernatural in literature.
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Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century.
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Art, British -- 19th century.
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Supernatural in art.
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| Added Author |
Bown, Nicola.
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Burdett, Carolyn, 1960-
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Thurschwell, Pamela, 1966-
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| ISBN |
0521810159 (alk. paper) |
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9780521810159 (alk. paper) |
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0521114640 (pbk.) |
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9780521114646 (pbk.) |
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