Author: John Jones (of Peckham.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mind and body
Languages : en
Pages : 758

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Author: Tatiana Kontou
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131704228X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 455

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Critical attention to the Victorian supernatural has flourished over the last twenty-five years. Whether it is spiritualism or Theosophy, mesmerism or the occult, the dozens of book-length studies and hundreds of articles that have appeared recently reflect the avid scholarly discussion of Victorian mystical practices. Designed both for those new to the field and for experts, this volume is organized into sections covering the relationship between Victorian spiritualism and science, the occult and politics, and the culture of mystical practices. The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult brings together some of the most prominent scholars working in the field to introduce current approaches to the study of nineteenth-century mysticism and to define new areas for research.

Author: Nicola Bown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521810159
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Author: Neil R Storey
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1399071106
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Previously unpublished research sheds new light on how Bram Stoker researched and wrote Dracula and the people who inspired his characters. Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula is an affectionate and revealing biography of the man who created the vampire novel that would define the genre and lead to a new age in Gothic horror literature. Based on decades of painstaking research in libraries, museums, and university archives and privileged access to private collections on both sides of the Atlantic, the private letters of Bram and the reminiscences of those who knew him not only shed new light on Stoker's ancestry, his life, loves and friendships they also reveal more about the places and people who inspired him and how he researched and wrote his books. Bram wrote numerous articles, short stories and poetry for newspapers and magazines, he had a total of eleven novels and two collections of short stories published in his lifetime, but he would only become known for one of them – Dracula. Tragically, he did not live long enough to see it as a huge success. In his heyday as Acting Manager for Sir Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre in the West End of London, Bram was a well-known figure in a golden age of British theater. He was a big-framed, ebullient, genial, gentleman, with red hair and beard, who never lost his soft Irish brogue, was blessed with wit, and a host of entertaining stories fit for every occasion. Described as having the paw of Hercules and the smile of Machiavelli, above all he knew what it meant to be a loyal friend.

Author: Alfred Moquin-Tandon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parasites
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Author: Francis Burdett COURTENAY
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Author: Adrian Mackinder
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1399082566
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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From spooky stories and real-life ghost hunting, to shows about murder and serial killers, we are fascinated by death - and we owe these modern obsessions to the Victorian age. Death and the Victorians explores a period in history when the search for the truth about what lies beyond our mortal realm was matched only by the imagination and invention used to find it. Walk among London’s festering graveyards, where the dead were literally rising from the grave. Visit the Paris Morgue, where thousands flocked to view the spectacle of death every single day. Lift the veil on how spirits were invited into the home, secret societies taught ways to survive death, and the latest science and technology was applied to provide proof of the afterlife. Find out why the Victorian era is considered the golden age of the ghost story, exemplified by tales from the likes of Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Oscar Wilde and Henry James. Discover how the birth of the popular press nurtured our taste for murder and that Jack the Ripper was actually a work of pure Gothic horror fiction crafted by cynical Victorian newspapermen. Death and the Victorians exposes the darker side of the nineteenth century, a time when the living were inventing incredible ways to connect with the dead that endure to this day.

Author: Janet Oppenheim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521347679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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A study of the public fascination with spiritualism and psychical research in Victorian and Edwardian times.

Author: Shane McCorristine
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000561461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1950

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This edition provides an insight into the dark areas between Victorian science, medicine and religion. The rare reset source material in this collection is organized thematically and spans the period from initial mesmeric experiments at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the decline of the Society for Psychical Research in the 1920s.

Author: Daniel Cottom
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195068572
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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A study from the American perspective of modern spiritualism, which flourished in the mid-19th century, and of surrealism, a movement that produced a major following between the two World Wars.