Popular Literature, Authorship and the Occult in Late Victorian Britain

ISBN: 9781107676886 出版年：2014 页码：212 Andrew McCann Cambridge University Press

Introduction: popular fiction as media histrionics 1. Property, professionalism and the pathologies of literature: Walter Besant and the discourse of authorship circa 1890 2. Dreaming true: aesthetic experience, psychiatric power and the paranormal in George Du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson 3. Marie Corelli and the spirit of the market 4. Writing aestheticism through colonial eyes: Rosa Praed and the theosophical novel 5. Arthur Machen and the 'Differentia of Literature' Conclusion: the popular fiction of critical theory Bibliography.