The Haunted Mind

The Supernatural in Victorian Literature

By: Elton E. Smith, Robert Haas

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Hardcover | 10 June 1999

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The Haunted Mind, a collection of original essays by prominent scholars from diverse disciplines, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of the influence of the supernatural on the literature of the Victorian period. Addressing standard classics of the canon as well as lesser known works and "penny dreadfuls," the essayists respond to the Victorian supernatural legacy from Marxist, poststructuralist, feminist, and cultural studies perspectives. The Haunted Mind contemplates the shifting use of the supernatural from an exterior force, acting upon characters, during the first half of the nineteenth century to an interior force, expressed through characters, in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Contributors also treat a range of topics at issue in cultural studies: the performance of gender; the inscribed body; the heritage of fairy tales; the translation of oral culture into text; the changing representation of gender, race, and class; the engendered images of science, nature, technology, family, and business. Essayists include Elaine Showalter, Katti Filmer-Davies, Harry Stone, Nancy Tyson, Roger Schlobin, Robert Haas, Tammis Thomas, and Esther and Elton Smith. The compilation of voices in The Haunted Mind creates a persuasive cultural critique of the fantastic in Victorian ideology in one volume of scholarship.

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Fiction General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1800 to 1900 Mind, Body, Spirit Unexplained Phenomena & the Paranormal Language & Linguistics Linguistics

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Victorian Literature and the Shifting Use of the Supernatural
Winged Ghosts: Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the Return to the Mystical	p. 1
A Christmas Carol: Giving Nursery Tales a Higher Form	p. 11
The Specter of the Self in Frankenstein and Great Expectations	p. 19
Danger and Compulsion in The Wind in the Willows, or Toad and Hyde Together at Last	p. 31
Masquerade Liberties and Female Power in Le Fanu's Carmilla	p. 39
Dr. Jekyll's Closet	p. 67
Kipling's Key to the Haunted Chamber	p. 89
Caliban in a Glass: Autoscopic Vision in The Picture of Dorian Gray	p. 101
Pedophiles amidst Looming Portentousness: Henry James's The Turn of the Screw	p. 123
Index	p. 131
About the Contributors	p. 137
About the Editors	p. 139
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