TY  - BOOK
AU  - Franklin,J.Jeffrey
TI  - Spirit matters: occult beliefs, alternative religions, and the crisis of faith in Victorian Britain 
SN  - 9781501715464
AV  - PR788 .S657 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - English prose literature
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Occultism in literature
KW  - Spiritualism in literature
KW  - Occultism
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Spiritualism
KW  - Religion and culture
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Orthodox Christianity, scientific materialism, and alternative religions --; The evolution of occult spirituality in Victorian England and the representative case of Edward Bulwer-Lytton --; Anthony Trollope's religion : the orthodox/heterodox boundary --; The influences of Buddhism and comparative religion on Matthew Arnold's theology --; Interpenetration of religion and national politics in Great Britain and Sri Lanka : William Knighton's Forest life in Ceylon --; Identity, genre, and religion in Anna Leonowens' The English governess at the Siamese court --; Ancient Egyptian religion in late-Victorian England --; The economics of immortality : the demi-immortal Oriental, Enlightenment vitalism, and political economy in Bram Stoker's Dracula --; Conclusion : from Victorian occultism to new age spiritualities; 2; b
N2  - Spirit Matters explores the heterodox and unorthodox religions and spiritualities that arose in Victorian Britain as a result of the faltering of Christian faith in the face of modernity, the rise of the truth-telling authority of science, and the
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