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POPULAR LITERATURE, AUTHORSHIP AND THE OCCULT IN LATE VICTORIAN BRITAIN: 94 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 94)

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Explore the fascinating intersection of popular Victorian literature and the occult with this critical study. Andrew McCann challenges conventional literary divides, revealing how late Victorian authors leveraged fascination with spiritualism and altered states to redefine authorship. Discover how writers like Marie Corelli and Arthur Machen used trance-induced writing and mediums to inject aesthetic and political value into popular fiction, resisting commercial pressures. Essential for students and scholars of Victorian literary history, cultural studies, and the evolution of authorship in the 19th century.

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