Possessed Victorians : Extra Spheres in Nineteenth-Century Mystical Writings [review]

Edwards, S.M. (2007) Possessed Victorians : Extra Spheres in Nineteenth-Century Mystical Writings [review]. [Review] (https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgm120)

Abstract

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.

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  Item type:	Review
  ID code:	18075
  Dates:	Date Event November 2007 Published
  Notes:	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.
  Subjects:	Language and Literature > English literature
  Department:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > English
  Depositing user:	Strathprints Administrator
  Date deposited:	26 Apr 2010 13:04
  Last modified:	08 Apr 2024 17:31
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  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/18075