The Night Side of Nature 2 Volume Set

Or, Ghosts and Ghost Seers

Catherine Crowe (Autor)

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826 Seiten

2011
Cambridge University Press
9781108027519 (ISBN)

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Crowe's collection of ghostly and psychic tales was a nineteenth-century best-seller. The stories deal with all manner of paranormal occurrences. It is a wonderful example of early Victorian spiritualist writing and marks the apogee of the nineteenth century's fascination with the supernatural.

The novelist and children's author Catherine Crowe (c.1800–1876) published The Night Side of Nature in two volumes in 1848. This lively collection of ghostly sketches and anecdotes was a Victorian best-seller and Crowe's most popular work. Sixteen editions appeared in six years, and it was translated into several European languages. The stories are intertwined with Crowe's own interpretations and commentaries which attack the scepticism of enlightenment thought and orthodox religion. Crowe seeks instead to encourage and re-invigorate a sense of wonder and mystery in life by emphasising the supernatural. The stories in Volume 1 centre on dreams, psychic presentiments, traces, wraiths, doppelgängers, apparitions, and imaginings of the after-life. Volume 2 probes the mysterious phenomena of troubled spirits, haunted houses, spectral lights, apparitions and poltergeists. Crowe's vivid tales, written with great energy and imagination, are classic examples of nineteenth-century spiritualist writing.

Volume 1: Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The dweller in the temple; 3. Waking and sleeping, and how the dweller in the temple sometimes looks abroad; 4. Allegorical dreams, presentiments, &c.; 5. Warnings; 6. Double dreaming and trance, wraiths, &c.; 7. Wraiths; 8. Doppelgangers, or doubles; 9. Apparitions; 10. The future that awaits us. Volume 2: 1. The power of will; 2. Troubled spirits; 3. Haunted houses; 4. Spectral lights, and apparitions attached to certain families; 5. Apparitions seeking the prayers of the living; 6. The poltergeist of the Germans, and possession; 7. Miscellaneous phenomena; 8. Conclusion.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.5.2011
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	250 x 320 mm
Gewicht	1340 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-13	9781108027519 / 9781108027519
Zustand	Neuware