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Women and the Victorian Occult

Women and the Victorian Occult

Hardcover

Literary CriticismMetaphysical GeneralGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415613264
ISBN13: 9780415613262
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 14 2010
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

What kinds of metaphors do spirits, ghosts, mediums, mesmerists, theosophists, spectral actresses, evil servants, dead bodies and vampires offer in understanding womanhood in the nineteenth century? This collection examines 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. This book was published as a special issue of Women's Writing.

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