1st Edition
Gothic Immortals (Routledge Revivals) The Fiction of the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross
By Marie Mulvey-Roberts
Copyright 1990
254 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
253 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
253 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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First published in 1990, this book represents the first full-length study of into the group of novels designated ‘Rosicrucian’ and traces the emergence of this distinct fictional genre, revealing a continuous occult tradition running through seemingly diverse literary texts. Taking the Enlightenment as a starting point, the author shows how the physician’s secular appropriation of the idea of... Read more
List of plates; Acknowledgements; 1. The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross 2. William Godwin’s Darkness of Enlightenment 3. Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Gothic Immortal 4. Mary Shelley and the Mortal Immortal 5. Maturin and the Rosicrucian Heresy 6. Bulwer-Lytton and the Rose and Cross 7. The Problem of Immortality; Appendix: Sadak The Wanderer; Bibliography; Index
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Authored by Mulvey-Roberts, Marie
