Weird Fiction in Britain 1880-1939, Palgrave Gothic by James Machin (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) Hardcover Edition

Weird Fiction in Britain 1880-1939, Palgrave Gothic by James Machin (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) Hardcover EditionJames Machin. Weird Fiction in Britain 1880 1939, Palgrave Gothic. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Hardcover edition. 259 pages. Condition: Fine Description from the publisher: This book is the first study of how weird fiction emerged from Victorian supernatural literature, abandoning the more conventional Gothic horrors of the past for the contemporary weird tale. It investigates the careers and fiction of a range of the British writers who

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and Brannon Wheeler

Description from the publisher: This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway

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By showing how it was possible for religious insiders to integrate magical studies with their orthodox worldview

In this provocative book

and one that can be said to have kick-started the ‘Aickmanesque’ short story

in which all later magic and religion had their original impetus

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