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Spiritualism and Women's Writing

From the Fin de Siècle to the Neo-Victorian

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  • © 2009

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  1. Tatiana Kontou
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Tatiana Kontou
    Pages 1-14

  3. Theatres in the Skull: The Society for Psychical Research and Actress Narratives

    • Tatiana Kontou
    Pages 15-42

  4. Well-tuned Mediums: May Sinclair and Dorothy Richardson

    • Tatiana Kontou
    Pages 43-80

  5. Phantasms of Florence Cook in Michèle Roberts’ In the Red Kitchen

    • Tatiana Kontou
    Pages 81-113

  6. Natural and Spiritual Evolutions: A. S. Byatt’s Angels and Insects

    • Tatiana Kontou
    Pages 114-146

  7. The Other World Illuminated: Wiring Science, Text and Spirit in Victoria Glendinning’s Electricity

    • Tatiana Kontou
    Pages 147-171

  8. Queering the Séance: Sarah Waters’ Affinity

    • Tatiana Kontou
    Pages 172-198

  9. Conclusion

    • Tatiana Kontou
    Pages 199-203

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 204-245
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About this book

Using a wide range of unexplored archival material, this book examines the 'spectral' influence of Victorian spiritualism and Psychical Research on women's writing, analyzing the ways in which modern writers have both subverted and mimicked nineteenth century sources in their evocation of the séance.

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'Spiritualism and Women's 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 author

TATIANA 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 Women's Writing on 'Women and the Victorian Occult' (2008).

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