Book contents
- Popular Literature, Authorship and the Occult in Late Victorian Britain
- Series page
- Popular Literature, Authorship and the Occult in Late Victorian Britain
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Popular fiction as media histrionics
- Chapter 1 Property, professionalism and the pathologies of literature: Walter Besant and the discourse of authorship circa 1890
- Chapter 2 Dreaming true: aesthetic experience, psychiatric power and the paranormal in George Du Maurier’s Peter Ibbetson
- Chapter 3 Marie Corelli and the spirit of the market
- Chapter 4 Writing aestheticism through colonial eyes: Rosa Praed and the theosophical novel
- Chapter 5 Arthur Machen and the “differentia of literature”
- Conclusion The popular fiction of critical theory
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 5 - Arthur Machen and the “differentia of literature”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2014
- Popular Literature, Authorship and the Occult in Late Victorian Britain
- Series page
- Popular Literature, Authorship and the Occult in Late Victorian Britain
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Popular fiction as media histrionics
- Chapter 1 Property, professionalism and the pathologies of literature: Walter Besant and the discourse of authorship circa 1890
- Chapter 2 Dreaming true: aesthetic experience, psychiatric power and the paranormal in George Du Maurier’s Peter Ibbetson
- Chapter 3 Marie Corelli and the spirit of the market
- Chapter 4 Writing aestheticism through colonial eyes: Rosa Praed and the theosophical novel
- Chapter 5 Arthur Machen and the “differentia of literature”
- Conclusion The popular fiction of critical theory
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014