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

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

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...