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Spiritualism and Womens Writing: From the Fin De Siècle to the Neo-Victorian
Author: Tatiana Kontou
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Using a wide range of unexplored archival material, this book examines the spectral influence of Victorian spiritualism and Psychical Research on womens writing, analysing the ways in which modern writers have both subverted and mimicked nineteenth century sources in their evocation of the seance. ReviewSpiritualism and Womens Writing is a thought-provoking book...Clearly, a huge amount of research has gone into this book. It is well written with lots of signposting, and offers some original and interesting readings. For me, it emphasizes how fluid history is, and how important the written word is in recording, and re-recording, these histories. -Lucy Le-Guilcher, Women a Cultural Review About the AuthorTATIANA KONTOU is Associate Tutor in English at the University of Sussex, UK. She has previously published an article on Wilkie Collins and Spiritualist practice in Wilkie Collins Interdisciplinary Essays (2007) and is the guest editor for a special issue of Womens Writing on Women and the Victorian Occult (2008).
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Using a wide range of unexplored archival material, this book examines the spectral influence of Victorian spiritualism and Psychical Research on womens writing, analysing the ways in which modern writers have both subverted and mimicked nineteenth century sources in their evocation of the seance. ReviewSpiritualism and Womens Writing is a thought-provoking book...Clearly, a huge amount of research has gone into this book. It is well written with lots of signposting, and offers some original and interesting readings. For me, it emphasizes how fluid history is, and how important the written word is in recording, and re-recording, these histories. -Lucy Le-Guilcher, Women a Cultural Review About the AuthorTATIANA KONTOU is Associate Tutor in English at the University of Sussex, UK. She has previously published an article on Wilkie Collins and Spiritualist practice in Wilkie Collins Interdisciplinary Essays (2007) and is the guest editor for a special issue of Womens Writing on Women and the Victorian Occult (2008).
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