Seeing victorian ghosts : spiritualism, metaphors of the occult, and the domestication of the supernatural in the ghost stories of Vernon Lee and Margaret Oliphant

This dissertation studies the Spiritualist fad that gripped Victorian England in the mid and late-nineteenth-century. It looks at the response generated by Spiritualism – both the fervency of believers newly converted to this alternative religion, and the fears and suspicions of critics. Divided int...

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Main Author: Wang, Esther Ying Jie
Other Authors: Tamara Silvia Wagner
Format: Theses and Dissertations
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48040
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English