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Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture

- Female Lucifers, Priestesses, and Witches

Om Women Writers and the Occult in Literature and Culture

This book visits the occult in literature from the 1880s to the 20th century, analyzing work by women occultists such as Alice Bailey, Dion Fortune, and Starhawk, and revisiting texts with occult motifs by canonical authors. It covers movements such as Theosophy, Spiritualism, Golden Dawn, Wicca, and Goddess spirituality, engaging with how literature creates occult worlds and identities, namely the female Lucifer, witch, priestess, and Goddess. The occult in literature incorporates topical discourses including psychoanalysis, feminism, pacifism, and ecology, hence this book will be of interest to scholars of literary and cultural studies, religious studies, sociology, and gender studies.

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  • Språk:
  • Engelska
  • ISBN:
  • 9781138824188
  • Format:
  • Inbunden
  • Sidor:
  • 236
  • Utgiven:
  • 18. juni 2015
  • Mått:
  • 236x159x21 mm.
  • Vikt:
  • 488 g.
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Förväntad leverans: 24. december 2024
Förlängd ångerrätt till 31. januari 2025

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This book visits the occult in literature from the 1880s to the 20th century, analyzing work by women occultists such as Alice Bailey, Dion Fortune, and Starhawk, and revisiting texts with occult motifs by canonical authors. It covers movements such as Theosophy, Spiritualism, Golden Dawn, Wicca, and Goddess spirituality, engaging with how literature creates occult worlds and identities, namely the female Lucifer, witch, priestess, and Goddess. The occult in literature incorporates topical discourses including psychoanalysis, feminism, pacifism, and ecology, hence this book will be of interest to scholars of literary and cultural studies, religious studies, sociology, and gender studies.

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