VICTORIAN SUPERNATURAL; ED. BY NICOLA BOWN.

Description:

This collection brings together essays by scholars from literature, history of art and history of science which explore the diversity of Victorian fascination with the supernatural: ghosts and fairies, table-rappings and telepathic encounters, occult religions and the idea of reincarnation, visions of the other world and a reality beyond the everyday. These essays demonstrate that the supernatural was not simply a reaction to the "post-Darwinian loss of faith", but was embedded in virtually every aspect of Victorian culture.

subjects: Civilization,  English literature,  Supernatural in literature,  British Art,  History and criticism,  Supernatural in art,  English literature, history and criticism, 19th century,  Art, british,  Great britain, civilization

Places: Great Britain

Times: 19th century