This book argues that theology is central to an understanding of the literary ghost story. Victorian ghost stories have traditionally been read in the context o

This book argues that theology is central to an understanding of the literary ghost story. Victorian ghost stories have traditionally been read in the context o

Longlisted for the 2022 International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Prize Surpassing scholarly discourse surrounding the emergent secularism of the 19t

Orthodox Christianity, scientific materialism, and alternative religions -- The evolution of occult spirituality in Victorian England and the representative cas

By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination,