Sarah a Willburn

Possessed Victorians

Extra Spheres in Nineteenth-Century Mystical Writings

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing upon extensive archival work in the British Library, Sarah Willburn analyzes séance accounts, novels about mediumship, and metaphysical treatises to formulate a new conception of individualism that offers a fresh look at Victorian subjectivity. She presents the theories of compelling characters such as Newton Crosland and Lois Waisbrooker a

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780367887902
• ISBN-10: 0367887908
• Artikelnr.: 58441860

Autorenporträt

Sarah A. Willburn is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction. Part One
Possessed Individualism: Possessed individualism in George Eliot's Daniel
Deronda. Part Two Extra Spheres: Worlds apart: invisible culture and extra
spheres. Part Three Subjectivity Reconfigured: Tables with contents;
Rethinking interiority through 19th-century trance novels. Bibliography;
Index.