Empire of the imagination: victorian popular fiction and the Occult, 1880-1910

This thesis assesses the ways in which occult activities and ideas prevalent during the late-Victorian period inspired and informed contemporary popular fiction. I argue that direct involvement with occultism was not necessary in order to feel the influence of its preoccupations: magic and supernatu...

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Main Author: o'byrne, Tamsin Kilner
Published: University of Exeter 2008
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.489230