Between Spiritualism and Hysteria: Science and Victorian Mediumship in Michèle Roberts¿ In the Red Kitchen
The aim of this article is to propose a reading of Michèle Roberts’ neo-Victorian novel, In the Red Kitchen (1990), in the light of recent work on the relationship between mainstream science —for example, the study of nerve illnesses— and the occult sciences in the second half of the Victorian perio...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2005 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) |
| Repositorio: | RIULL. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riull.ull.es:915/18884 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/18884 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | narrativa histórica contemporánea ciencia y literatura espiritismo victoriano Michèle Roberts histeria |
| Sumario: | The aim of this article is to propose a reading of Michèle Roberts’ neo-Victorian novel, In the Red Kitchen (1990), in the light of recent work on the relationship between mainstream science —for example, the study of nerve illnesses— and the occult sciences in the second half of the Victorian period. This novel examines the connections between hysteria and spiritualism, as well as challenges and demystifies the scientific discourse of early psychol- ogy, thus proposing a “hysterical” narrative. Lastly, it will be argued that Roberts’ novel is part of a recent trend that can be found in neo-Victorian fiction in which nineteenth- century science and the occult interrelate. |
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