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| Author | : Marie Mulvey-Roberts |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2016-05-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 131720641X |
First published in 1990, this book represents the first full-length study of into the group of novels designated ‘Rosicrucian’ and traces the emergence of this distinct fictional genre, revealing a continuous occult tradition running through seemingly diverse literary texts. Taking the Enlightenment as a starting point, the author shows how the physician’s secular appropriation of the idea of eternal life, through the study of longevity and physical decay, attracted writers like William Godwin. It focuses on the bodily immortality of the Rosicrucian hero and investigates the novels of five major writers — Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Maturin, and Bulwer-Lytton.
| Author | : Marie Mulvey-Roberts |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2016-05-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317206401 |
First published in 1990, this book represents the first full-length study of into the group of novels designated ‘Rosicrucian’ and traces the emergence of this distinct fictional genre, revealing a continuous occult tradition running through seemingly diverse literary texts. Taking the Enlightenment as a starting point, the author shows how the physician’s secular appropriation of the idea of eternal life, through the study of longevity and physical decay, attracted writers like William Godwin. It focuses on the bodily immortality of the Rosicrucian hero and investigates the novels of five major writers — Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Maturin, and Bulwer-Lytton.
| Author | : MARIE. MULVEY-ROBERTS |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2018-01-19 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781138671584 |
First published in 1990, this book represents the first full-length study of into the group of novels designated �Rosicrucian� and traces the emergence of this distinct fictional genre, revealing a continuous occult tradition running through seemingly diverse literary texts. Taking the Enlightenment as a starting point, the author shows how the physician�s secular appropriation of the idea of eternal life, through the study of longevity and physical decay, attracted writers like William Godwin. It focuses on the bodily immortality of the Rosicrucian hero and investigates the novels of five major writers � Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Maturin, and Bulwer-Lytton.
| Author | : Joan Passey |
| Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2023-06-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1786839938 |
This book asks why so many authors drew on Cornwall for inspiration across the long nineteenth century, and considers the seismic cultural changes in Cornwall that spurred this interest – from the collapse of the mining industry to the developing national rail network; from the birth of tourism to the neomedieval rise in interest in King Arthur. Understanding frequently overlooked Cornwall in this period is vital to understanding Gothic literature, the Victorian imagination, intellectual and creative networks, and attitudes towards regionality. The first part of the book considers landscape and legend, defining a mining Gothic tradition, exposing the shipwreck as Gothic mastertrope, and demonstrating how antiquarians drew from Cornish legends and lore. The second part explores encounters with modernity, investigating the impact of railway expansion on access to Cornwall, the development of a Cornish King Arthur as a key figure of Victorian masculinity, and the specific features of the Cornish ghost story.
| Author | : Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 510 |
| Release | : 2016-05-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317206592 |
First published in 1988, this book aims to provide keys to the study of Gothicism in British and American literature. It gathers together much material that had not been cited in previous works of this kind and secondary works relevant to literary Gothicism — biographies, memoirs and graphic arts. Part one cites items pertaining to significant authors of Gothic works and part two consists of subject headings, offering information about broad topics that evolve from or that have been linked with Gothicism. Three indexes are also provided to expedite searches for the contents of the entries. This book will be of interest to students of literature.
| Author | : Marie Mulvey-Roberts |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2014-08-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 131763490X |
A surprisingly large number of English poets have either belonged to a secret society, or been strongly influenced by its tenets. One of the best known examples is Christopher Smart’s membership of the Freemasons, and the resulting influence of Masonic doctrines on A Song to David. However, many other poets have belonged to, or been influenced by not only the Freemasons, but the Rosicrucians, Gormogons and Hell-Fire Clubs. First published in 1986, this study concentrates on five major examples: Smart, Burns, William Blake, William Butler Yeats and Rudyard Kipling, as well as a number of other poets. Marie Roberts questions why so many poets have been powerfully attracted to the secret societies, and considers the effectiveness of poetry as a medium for conveying secret emblems and ritual. She shows how some poets believed that poetry would prove a hidden symbolic language in which to reveal great truths. The beliefs of these poets are as diverse as their practice, and this book sheds fascinating light on several major writers.
| Author | : Henry A. Beers |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 2015-08-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 131768477X |
First published in 1926, this title presents the great artistic and literary innovations of the Romantic movement according to an often overlooked and unacknowledged definition of ‘Romanticism’, which is of particular relevance in the consideration of the English Romantic spirit: pertaining to the style of the Christian and popular literature of the Middle Ages.
| Author | : Derrick Leon |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 656 |
| Release | : 2015-07-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317440471 |
This book, first published in 1949, is an important work in Victorian studies, and directs light on Ruskin’s personal tragedy, his public life, and on the character of his work. This book will be of interest to students of history and cultural studies.
| Author | : Oswald Spengler |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 59 |
| Release | : 2016-11-10 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1351980947 |
First published in 1932, this book, based on an address delivered in 1931, presents a concise and lucid summary of the philosophy of the author of The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler. It was his conviction that the technical age — the culture of the machine age — which man had created in virtue of his unique capacity for individual as well as racial technique, had already reached its peak, and that the future held only catastrophe. He argued it lacked progressive cultural life and instead was dominated by a lust for power and possession. The triumph of the machine led to mass regimentation rather than fewer workers and less work — spelling the doom of Western civilization.
| Author | : Thomas Jackson Rice |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2018-02-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1351047426 |
Originally published in 1987 Barnaby Rudge is a comprehensive collection of bibliographical resources surrounding Dickens fifth novel Barnaby Rudge. The book addresses what the author terms, a ‘prevalent lack of research’ surrounding the novel. The collection lists bibliographic references which not only looks at the novel itself, but also covers older resources that interested Dicken’s first critics, such as the originality of the settings and characters. The book’s core focus is examining the novel’s historical subject matter in the context of the social and political context in which it was written. The book acts as a core resource for research on Barnaby Rudge.
