Edwards, S.M. (2007) Possessed victorians: extra spheres in nineteenth-century mystical writings. Review of English Studies, 58 (237). pp. 752-753. ISSN 0034-6551
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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.
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 18075 |
| Keywords: | English literature, Victorian, 19th century, mystical, writing, English literature |
| Subjects: | Language and Literature > English literature |
| Department: | Faculty of Humanities And Social Sciences > English |
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| Depositing user: | Strathprints Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Apr 2010 14:04 |
| Last modified: | 04 Oct 2012 13:01 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/18075 |
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