Spirits and Spirituality in Victorian Fiction by J Cadwallader

Spirits and Spirituality in Victorian Fiction by J Cadwallader

As seen in fiction, newspaper accounts, and magic shows, the presence of ghosts pervaded the Victorian period. This book examines supernatural encounters in a wide range of Victorian writers including Dickens and Kipling. Cadwallader argues that these fictional spirits reflect how Victorians were adapting to rapid scientific and religious changes.

“Jen Cadwallader’s lively, accessible, and very insightful Spirits and Spirituality in Victorian Fiction brilliantly problematises readings of ghost stories as articulations of an agnostic sensibility …Cadwallader performs sensitive and careful close readings of these stories, as well as providing a powerful sense of the complexity of the ghost story’s position in Victorian culture. I recommend Spirits and the Spiritual in Victorian Fiction very strongly.” (Jarlath Killeen, The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, Vol. 16, 2017)

Jen Cadwallader is Associate Professor of English at Randolph-Macon College, USA.

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ISBN 13	9781137559920
ISBN 10	1137559926
Titre	Spirits and Spirituality in Victorian Fiction
Auteur	J Cadwallader
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Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	Palgrave Macmillan
Année de publication	2016-01-22
Nombre de pages	209
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