Reviews for Strangers and secrets

The average rating for Strangers and secrets based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-02-24 00:00:00 Steve Bak Three essays by a fanatic collector of Victorian novels and an engaging historian of the authors' lives. Much here to interest someone looking for the roots of English language horror, a bridge between the earlier Gothics and the influence of the late Century Symbolists on the ghost story tradition, but more for the real-life antics of Laurence Oliphant and the tragedy of unfulfilled potential that is Oliver Madox Brown. There's also a fine essay on Le Fanu's Uncle Silas, but the meat of the book is a couple of hundred pages on the occult works, fictional and actual, of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, once an admired peer of DiIckens but today best known for his association with a comic strip beagle and a bad-writing contest. Wolff explores three novels, Zanoni, A Strange Story, and The Coming Race and shows how they grew out of Bulwer's exploration of ceremonial occultism, mesmerism, and especially spiritualism. I really liked the accounts of his work with Daniel Home and the family's apparent anger that he didn't take the greatest medium of the day seriously enough. A really great set of explorations of the foggy labyrinths of side street Victorian culture!

Review # 2 was written on 2012-10-28 00:00:00 Andrij Usztan الأخوات برونتي وتفسير ماركسي نقدي لإيغلتون ، الأدب والشخصيات والمجتمع كلهم هنا ينتظرون