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02855aam a2200397 i 4500 001 0A7AEC006B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150811t20162016enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015028110 020 $a 1137559926 020 $a 9781137559920 035 $a (OCoLC)918149879 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d YDXCP $d OCLCF $d CDX $d EYM $d OCLCO $d COO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR878 S85 C33 2016 100 1 $a Cadwallader, Jen, $d 1979- $e author. 245 10 $a Spirits and spirituality in Victorian fiction / $c Jen Cadwallader. 264 1 $a Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2016. 300 $a 209 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "Spirits and Spirituality in Victorian Fiction argues that supernatural encounters in nineteenth-century fiction show Victorians trying to achieve greater spiritual agency by adapting scientific theories to traditional Christianity. The increasing presence of ghosts across the nineteenth century - in fiction, newspaper accounts, s©âances, and magic shows - thus highlights a significant countercurrent to the general decline of faith during the period. Through examining ghost encounters in the fiction of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Rhoda Broughton, E. Nesbit, Rudyard Kipling, and others, this book demonstrates how the supernatural served as a site where a range of stances toward spirituality could be tested: from ambivalence toward both scientific and religious epistemologies to fascinating instances of spiritual evolution. Not only do fictional ghosts suggest that belief persisted despite an intellectual climate that often associated spirituality with credulity, but they also "-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Framing the Ghost Story -- 1. Physiology, Pharmacology, and the Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu -- 2. Dickens's Ghosts and the Christmas Spirit -- 3. The Anatomy of Desire: Madness, Mesmerism, and the Specters of Female Sexuality -- 4. Mourning the Dead and the Rise of the New Faith -- Coda: Cecilia De No©±l and the Triumph of Experience. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Ghost stories, English $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Psychological fiction, English $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Supernatural in literature. 650 0 $a Ghosts in literature. 650 0 $a Supernatural $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z England $x History $y 19th century. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180710062027.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826045146.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0A7AEC006B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search