Popular Literature, Authorship and the Occult in Late Victorian Britain

ISBN-13: 9781107676886 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 210 str.

Andrew McCann

Opis

A study of the representation of the occult in late-Victorian popular fiction, exploring different perceptions of authorship and creativity.

Spis treści

Introduction: popular fiction as media histrionics; 1. Property, professionalism and the pathologies of literature: Walter Besant and the discourse of authorship circa 1890; 2. Dreaming true: aesthetic experience, psychiatric power and the paranormal in George Du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson; 3. Marie Corelli and the spirit of the market; 4. Writing aestheticism through colonial eyes: Rosa Praed and the theosophical novel; 5. Arthur Machen and the 'Differentia of Literature'; Conclusion: the popular fiction of critical theory; Bibliography.