Spiritualism and Women's Writing From the fin

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

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).

List of Figures	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Theatres in the Skull: The Society for Psychical Research and Actress Narratives	p. 15
Well-tuned Mediums: May Sinclair and Dorothy Richardson	p. 43
Phantasms of Florence Cook in Michèle Roberts' In the Red Kitchen	p. 81
Natural and Spiritual Evolutions: A.S. Byatt's Angels and Insects	p. 114
The Other World Illuminated: Wiring Science, Text and Spirit in Victoria Glendinning's Electricity	p. 147
Queering the Séance: Sarah Waters' Affinity	p. 172
Conclusion	p. 199
Notes	p. 204
Bibliography	p. 220
Index	p. 237
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Spiritualism and Women's Writing From the fin de siècle to the neo-Victorian

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