Devil and the Victorians
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"The Devil and the Victorians is a welcome warning for historians of nineteenth-century religion that the supernatural should not be excluded or reduced to a footnote, but deserves scholarly attention in its own right and on its own terms…Together, the chapters ably and elegantly bring into dialogue a variety of published sources—from Punch and Judy to printed sermons, to court material and fiction, to Theosophical and spiritualist periodicals. Together they make this study a valuable contribution to the now well-established argument against nineteenth-century disenchantment: the Devil adapted to modernity, even flourished in it, precisely because of the flexibility of ‘beliefs, practices, narratives, and entertainments’ that got attached to him.."
Kristof Smeyers, University of Antwerp
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In recent decades, there has been a growing recognition of the significance of the supernatural in a Victorian context. Studies of nineteenth-century spiritualism, occultism, magic, and folklore have highlighted that Victorian England was ridden with spectres and learned magicians. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Routledge
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 236
- ISBN
- 9780367444204
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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"The Devil and the Victorians is a welcome warning for historians of nineteenth-century religion that the supernatural should not be excluded or reduced to a footnote, but deserves scholarly attention in its own right and on its own terms…Together, the chapters ably and elegantly bring into dialogue a variety of published sources—from Punch and Judy to printed sermons, to court material and fiction, to Theosophical and spiritualist periodicals. Together they make this study a valuable contribution to the now well-established argument against nineteenth-century disenchantment: the Devil adapted to modernity, even flourished in it, precisely because of the flexibility of ‘beliefs, practices, narratives, and entertainments’ that got attached to him.."
Kristof Smeyers, University of Antwerp
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