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The Democratisation of the Spook: W. T. Stead and the Invention of Public Occultism
Sausman, Justin (The British Library, 2012)Contribution to a collection of essays published by the British Library marking the centenary of the death of controversial late-Victorian journalist W. T. Stead, the chapter traces the different strategies Stead used in ... -
Floods, erosion, tourists and ghosts: M. R. James' and E. F. Benson's defence of the East Anglian coast in 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You My Lad', ‘A Warning to the Curious’ and E. F. Benson’s ‘A Tale of an Empty House’.
Sausman, Justin (University of Hertfordshire, 2020-12-02)This article situates Edwardian and inter-war ghost stories by M. R. James and E. F. Benson as oblique responses to early twentieth century debates about rural environments, the impact of tourism and coastal erosion. It ... -
From Vibratory Occultism to Vibratory Modernism: Blackwood, Lawrence, Woolf.
Sausman, Justin (Palgrave, 2013)This chapter explores the language of vibration in fin de siecle and early twentieth century occultism, gothic and modernism. It focuses on Algernon Blackwood's little known gothic novel The Human Chord, alongside Virgina ... -
'It's organisms that die, not life': Henri Bergson, Psychical Research, and the Contemporary Uses of Vitalism.
Sausman, Justin (Manchester University Press, 2013-09)This chapter traces the connections between Henri Bergson's vitalist philosophy and his interest in spiritualism and psychical research. The chapter concludes by reflecting on the continuation of these links in contemporary ... -
Victorian Science and Literature: : Marginal and Occult Sciences
Sausman, Justin; Luckhurst, Roger; School of Humanities (Pickering and Chatto, 2012)The final volume of the Victorian Science and Literature series, this volume collects rare primary texts drawn from the marginal scientific disciplines of the 19th century that blurred the boundaries with occultism, magic ... -
Where Are the Dead? A Genealogy of Mediumship in Victoria Glendinning's Electricity
Sausman, Justin (Continuum, 2010)Traces the significance of Victorian spiritualism and science and the medium Ada Goodrich-Freer in Victoria Glendinning's neo-Victorian novel Electricity.