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Contents List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 SECTION ONE: POSSESSED INDIVIDUALISM 1 Possessed Individualism in George Eliot¿s Daniel Deronda 13 Gwendolen as Possessive Individual 14 Daniel as Possessed Individual 17 Judaism as Pantheism: Civilization Outside of the Nation-state Paradigm 24 Proto-Zionism or Postnationalism? 28 Eliot¿s Realism in Daniel Deronda 37 The Realism of Collective Identity 38 Inclusions and Exclusions: Aggregate Characterization 40 Conclusion 46 SECTION TWO: EXTRA SPHERES 2 Worlds Apart: Invisible Culture and Extra Spheres 49 Invisible Culture 50 Spiritualist Views on Seeing the Invisible 52 Newton Crosland¿s Theory of Apparitions 56 Spirit Photography 58 Camilla Crosland¿s Millenarian Theology 65 Extra Spheres 70 Spiritual Darwinism 72 Harriet Martineau and Mesmeric Cure 81 Florence Marryat, the Professional Medium, and Promiscuous Community 84 Conclusion 88 viii Possessed Victorians SECTION THREE: SUBJECTIVITY RECONFIGURED 3 Tables with Contents 93 Tables 96 The Guppys¿ Table, Mary Jane 103 Victorian Tables without Contents 113 4 Rethinking Interiority through Nineteenth-Century Trance Novels 115 Trance Heroines 116 Lucy Snowe¿s ¿Ghosting¿ 119 Agnes: Possessed by Lawless Desire 122 Zillah and Maud: The Threat of Mediumship to Marriage 126 Late-Century Trance Novels: Moving Trances out of England 133 Marie Corelli¿s Romance and Victorian Women in Outer Space 134 Electricity and Astral Travel: Science and Fiction United 136 Keep Moving Out into the Gap: The Conflation of Mystical Buddhism, Islam, and Spiritualism 141 Pseudo-Islamic Trance Novels and the Charismatic Possessed Individual 148 Conclusion 151 Bibliography 153 Index 165
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English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Mysticism in literature.