The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction, by Dorothy Scarborough, Ph.D
by Dorothy Scarborough
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About this eBook
- Author
- Scarborough, Dorothy, 1878-1935
- Title
- The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction
- Credits
- Produced by Jana Srna, eagkw and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Supernatural in literature
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 47204
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47204
- Release Date
- October 26, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.INTRODUCTION
- 5.CHAPTER I The Gothic Romance — Elements of Gothicism. — The Origin of Individual Gothic Tales. — The Gothic Ghosts. — Witches and Warlocks. — The Devil. — Aids to Gothic Effect. — Conclusion.
- 6.CHAPTER II Later Influences
- 7.CHAPTER III MODERN GHOSTS
- 8.CHAPTER IV The Devil and His Allies — The Wizard and the Witch. — Dæmonic Spirits—Vampires. — The Werewolf and Others.
- 9.CHAPTER V Supernatural Life — The Wandering Jew. — Elixir of Life. — Metempsychosis. — Spiritualism and Psychical Research. — Life after Death.
- 10.CHAPTER VI The Supernatural in Folk-Tales
- 11.CHAPTER VII Supernatural Science
- 12.CHAPTER VIII Conclusion — INDEX — FOOTNOTES
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