Author: Laurence Oliphant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Masollam
Author: Laurence Oliphant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Masollam: a Problem of the Period
Author: Laurence Oliphant
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Possessed Victorians
Author: Sarah A. Willburn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351909762
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In her absorbing study of nineteenth-century mystical writings, Sarah Willburn formulates a new conception of individualism that offers a fresh look at Victorian subjectivity. Drawing upon extensive archival work in the British Library, Willburn analyzes séance accounts, novels about mediumship, and metaphysical treatises to make important connections between contemporary writings on mysticism and fictional works. Willburn presents the theories of compelling characters such as Newton Crosland and Lois Waisbrooker and provides exciting new readings of well-known texts by Charlotte Brontë, Eliot, Martineau, and Corelli. An understanding of the Victorian fascination with mysticism, Willburn argues, leads to a better appreciation of cultural constructions of the citizen in England and of the public sphere. She introduces two key concepts against the backdrop of popular mysticism: "possessed individualism," a model for Victorian individualism based on spiritual possession, and "extra spheres," which complicate the traditional binary opposition of public and private. Together, these formulations urge us to rethink our views of Victorian political economy and gender as they pertain to mystical and religious practices.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351909762
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In her absorbing study of nineteenth-century mystical writings, Sarah Willburn formulates a new conception of individualism that offers a fresh look at Victorian subjectivity. Drawing upon extensive archival work in the British Library, Willburn analyzes séance accounts, novels about mediumship, and metaphysical treatises to make important connections between contemporary writings on mysticism and fictional works. Willburn presents the theories of compelling characters such as Newton Crosland and Lois Waisbrooker and provides exciting new readings of well-known texts by Charlotte Brontë, Eliot, Martineau, and Corelli. An understanding of the Victorian fascination with mysticism, Willburn argues, leads to a better appreciation of cultural constructions of the citizen in England and of the public sphere. She introduces two key concepts against the backdrop of popular mysticism: "possessed individualism," a model for Victorian individualism based on spiritual possession, and "extra spheres," which complicate the traditional binary opposition of public and private. Together, these formulations urge us to rethink our views of Victorian political economy and gender as they pertain to mystical and religious practices.
The Theosophist
Author:
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Category : Theosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 918
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Category : Theosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
The Literary World
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
Book Description
Time
Author: Edmund Hodgson Yates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
The Chosen People
Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375121423
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375121423
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.
The Chosen People; A Compendium of Sacred and Church History for School-Children
Author: Charlotte M. Yonge
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368364545
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368364545
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
The Chosen People
Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Hidden Intercourse
Author: Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047443586
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
From rumours about gnostic orgies in antiquity to the explicit erotic symbolism of alchemical texts, from the subtly coded eroticism of medieval kabbalah to the sexual magic practiced by contemporary occultists and countercultural translations of Asian Tantra, the history of Western esotericism is rich in references to the domains of eros and sexuality. This volume, which brings together an impressive array of top-level specialists, is the first to analyze the eroticism of the esoteric without sensationalism or cheap generalizations, but on the basis of expert scholarship and attention to textual and historical detail. While there are few other domains where the imagination may so easily run wild, the various contributions seek to distinguish fact from fiction--only to find that historical realities are sometimes even stranger than the fantasies. In doing so, they reveal the outlines of a largely unknown history spanning more than twenty centuries.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047443586
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
From rumours about gnostic orgies in antiquity to the explicit erotic symbolism of alchemical texts, from the subtly coded eroticism of medieval kabbalah to the sexual magic practiced by contemporary occultists and countercultural translations of Asian Tantra, the history of Western esotericism is rich in references to the domains of eros and sexuality. This volume, which brings together an impressive array of top-level specialists, is the first to analyze the eroticism of the esoteric without sensationalism or cheap generalizations, but on the basis of expert scholarship and attention to textual and historical detail. While there are few other domains where the imagination may so easily run wild, the various contributions seek to distinguish fact from fiction--only to find that historical realities are sometimes even stranger than the fantasies. In doing so, they reveal the outlines of a largely unknown history spanning more than twenty centuries.