Spirits and Spirituality in Victorian Fiction

✍ Scribed by Jen Cadwallader (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 219
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Framing the Ghost Story....Pages 1-19
Physiology, Pharmacology, and the Ghost Stories of J. S. Le Fanu....Pages 21-50
Dickens’s Ghosts and the Christmas Spirit....Pages 51-82
The Anatomy of Desire: Madness, Mesmerism, and the Specters of Female Sexuality....Pages 83-122
Mourning the Dead and the Rise of the New Faith....Pages 123-165
Coda: Cecilia De Noël and the Triumph of Experience....Pages 167-170
Back Matter....Pages 171-209

✦ Subjects

Nineteenth-Century Literature; Literary History; Spirituality; British and Irish Literature; European Literature

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