Christine Ferguson

Open Secrets

The Popular Fiction of Britain's Occult Revival, 1842-1936

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Open Secrets sheds new light on the fascinating popular fiction produced by key writers within Britain's occult revival, including Edward Bulwer Lytton, Emma Hardinge Britten, Marie Corelli, Mabel Collins, Arthur Machen, Charles Fort, Aleister Crowley, and Dion Fortune. In their hands, genres aimed at mass readerships- the Bildungsroman, romance, tabloid tit-bit, and detective tale- became potent tools through which to imagine and test unorthodox ideas about the unseen world. Their remarkable literary experiments aligned the rhythms of popular genre fiction with those of spiritual seekership, insisting that occultism could and should be for the mass reading public.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780197651599
• ISBN-10: 0197651593
• Artikelnr.: 73666248

Autorenporträt

Christine Ferguson is Chair in English Studies at the University of Stirling, where she teaches and researches in the fields of Victorian literature, Gothic Studies, and esotericism studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: In Bulwer's Bookshop
2: Magical Meisters: The Problem of Progress in the Occult Bildungsroman
3: Sex, Self, and Liberation in the Female Reincarnation Novel
4: Journoccultism: Numinous News and the Mantic Fragment
5: Occult Detection in the Aeon of Horus
Conclusion: Forming Occult Fiction in the Secular Age
Bibliography
Index