Open secrets : the popular fiction of Britain's occult revival, 1842-1936
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Open secrets : the popular fiction of Britain's occult revival, 1842-1936
（Oxford studies in Western esotericism）
Oxford University Press, [2025] , , c2025
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Content Type: text (ncrcontent), Media Type: unmediated (ncrmedia), Carrier Type: volume (ncrcarrier)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-224) and index
Summary:"Open Secrets examines the popular genre fiction produced by leading figures within Britain's occult revival from the 1840s to the 1930s, including Edward Bulwer Lytton, Emma Hardinge Britten, Marie Corelli, Mabel Collins, Arthur Machen, Charles Fort, Aleister Crowley, and Dion Fortune. In taking the spiritual stakes of such works seriously, it claims them for the recent "religious turn" within Victorian and modernist studies, and counters the longstanding reduction of occult fiction's supernaturalism to the status of metaphor or anxiogenic cultural symptom. At the same time, it shows how the revival's popular fictional output was always more than just a reflection of, or mode of propaganda for, unorthodox authorial belief or initiatory intention; rather, it demonstrates how this fascinating corpus became a charged site for genre innovation and formal experimentation. The rich spiritual and literary affordances of revival fiction, Open Secrets reveals, were deeply interlinked and mutually ...
