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BL
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844179
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Wallraven, Miriam,1975-
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| Title & Author
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Women writers and the occult in literature and culture : : female lucifers, priestesses, and witches /\ Miriam Wallraven.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Routledge,, 2015.
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| Series Statement
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Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;; 30
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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1315740842
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: 1317581385
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: 9781315740843
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: 9781317581383
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9781138824188
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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1. Introduction -- 2. The discursive strategies and functions of occult and gendered worlds in literature -- 3. "A mere instrument" or "proud as Lucifer"? Self-presentations in the occult autobiographies of Emma Hardinge Britten (1900), Annie Besant (1893), and Alice A. Bailey (1951) -- 4. "She was a witch by vocation" : the emancipatory strategies of occult transgression in Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willowes (1926) -- 5. "She became a priestess" : occult liminality, psychoanalysis, and the role of the text in Dion Fortune's The sea priestess (1938) -- 6. Unreliable occultism : narrating the occult, Leonora Carrington's The hearing trumpet (1976) and Angela Carter's The passion of new Eve (1977) -- 7. Occult worlds : utopias and dystopias of magical power, Starhawk's The fifth sacred thing (1994) and Suzy McKee Charnas' The Holdfast chronicles (1974-99) -- 8. "Standing before me she is familiar" : deciphering esoteric connections and feminine occult power in Rose Flint's poetry -- 9. Conclusion : the functions of occult and spiritual literature.
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Literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
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Occultism in literature.
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Occultists.
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Spiritualism in literature.
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Spiritualists.
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Women and literature-- History-- 20th century.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.
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Literature-- Women authors.
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Occultism in literature.
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Occultists.
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Spiritualism in literature.
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Spiritualists.
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Women and literature.
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| Dewey Classification
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809/.9338
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| LC Classification
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PN56.O33
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