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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages | 752-753 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Journal | Review of English Studies |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue number | 237 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Nov 2007 |
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Keywords
- English literature
- Victorian
- 19th century
- mystical
- writing
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Possessed Victorians : Extra Spheres in Nineteenth-Century Mystical Writings [review]. / Edwards, S.M.
In: Review of English Studies , Vol. 58, No. 237, 11.2007, p. 752-753.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
TY - JOUR
T1 - Possessed Victorians
T2 - Review of English Studies
AU - Edwards, S.M.
N1 - This article is a review of "Possessed Victorians: Extra Spheres in Nineteenth-Century Mystical Writings" by Sarah A. Willburn. Pp. xii + 170 (The Nineteenth Century Series). Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2006.
PY - 2007/11
Y1 - 2007/11
N2 - This lively and important study opens on a vision seen by a 'sister in the New Life', a Swedenborgian cult. This 'sister' recounts the formation of a new community in which fairies or 'fays' can 'move into a person's breast . . .[and] then clearing a space . . . begin to build their house' after which 'little baby fays would be born' (p. 1).Willburn traces connections between these and other such apparently marginal and eccentric practicesçastral travel, table-rapping, mediumshipçand the models of individual selfhood found in liberal political theory and in the Victorian novel. Her study builds on a growing body of scholarship that reveals the widespread in£uence of occult practices on Victorian imaginings of community.
AB - This lively and important study opens on a vision seen by a 'sister in the New Life', a Swedenborgian cult. This 'sister' recounts the formation of a new community in which fairies or 'fays' can 'move into a person's breast . . .[and] then clearing a space . . . begin to build their house' after which 'little baby fays would be born' (p. 1).Willburn traces connections between these and other such apparently marginal and eccentric practicesçastral travel, table-rapping, mediumshipçand the models of individual selfhood found in liberal political theory and in the Victorian novel. Her study builds on a growing body of scholarship that reveals the widespread in£uence of occult practices on Victorian imaginings of community.
KW - English literature
KW - Victorian
KW - 19th century
KW - mystical
KW - writing
UR - http://res.oxfordjournals.org/
U2 - 10.1093/res/hgm120
DO - 10.1093/res/hgm120
M3 - Book/Film/Article review
VL - 58
SP - 752
EP - 753
JO - Review of English Studies
JF - Review of English Studies
SN - 0034-6551
IS - 237
ER -