The Occult Imagination in Britain 1875 1947 1st Edition by Christine Ferguson, Andrew Radford 9781351168304 1351168304

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• ISBN 10: 1351168304
• ISBN 13: 9781351168304
• Author: Christine Ferguson, Andrew Radford

Between 1875 and 1947, a period bookended, respectively, by the founding of the Theosophical Society and the death of notorious occultist celebrity Aleister Crowley, Britain experienced an unparalleled efflorescence of engagement with unusual occult schema and supernatural phenomena such as astral travel, ritual magic, and reincarnationism. Reflecting the signal array of responses by authors, artists, actors, impresarios and popular entertainers to questions of esoteric spirituality and belief, this interdisciplinary collection demonstrates the enormous interest in the occult during a time typically associated with the rise of secularization and scientific innovation. The contributors describe how the occult realm functions as a turbulent conceptual and affective space, shifting between poles of faith and doubt, the sacrosanct and the profane, the endemic and the exotic, the forensic and the fetishistic. Here, occultism emerges as a practice and epistemology that decisively shapes the literary enterprises of writers such as Dion Fortune and Arthur Machen, artists such as Pamela Colman Smith, and revivalists such as Rolf Gardiner

Table contents:

1 Theosophy in Scotland: Oriental occultism and national identity
2 The everyday occult on stage: The plays of Lord Dunsany
3 “A very perfect form of discipline”: Rolf Gardiner, folk dance and occult landscapes
Occulting the public sphere
4 “Under a glamour”: Annie Besant, Charles Leadbeater and Neo-Theosophy
5 The Black Magic Bogeyman 1908–1935
6 Stemming the black tide of mud: Psychoanalysis and the occult periodical
Women’s Occulture
7 Egyptosophy in the British Museum: Florence Farr, the Egyptian Adept and the Ka
8 Pamela Colman Smith, symbolism and spiritual synaesthesia
9 Anxieties of mystic influence: Dion Fortune’s The Winged Bull and Aleister Crowley
Art, fiction and occult intermediation
10 Naturalists in Ghost Land: Victorian occultism and science fiction
11 Painting the masters in Britain: From Schmiechen to Scott
12 “Beating on your heart”: Occultism and neo-romanticism in the fiction of David Lindsay

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