Spiritualism and Women's Writing: From the Fin de Siècle to the Neo-Victorian - Hardcover
Spiritualism and Women's Writing: From the Fin de Siècle to the Neo-Victorian - Hardcover
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by T. Kontou (Author)
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.
Author Biography
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).
