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'Grimes's analysis of Kipling's Wireless with its use of the telegraph, automatic writing, and the possible channeling of the spirits of John Keats and Fanny Brawne is particularly intriguing and provides a historic link to contemporary gothic texts that use technology, such as the Internet and cell phones, as a conduit into the spirit world. Summing up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.' Choice 'The Late Victorian Gothic provides an interesting and detailed investigation of issues like spiritualism, mental science, hypnotism, which have lately been at the core of a renewed attention by Victorian literary critics. Such topics are well contextualized in the late Victorian social scene and actively linked to its multifaceted cultural dynamics... useful text for specialists in the field, as well as an enjoyable and valuable source for those who would like to extend their knowledge about late Victorian literature and culture'. Rivista di Studi Vittoriani '... lucid, smart and concise.' Victorian Studies '...succeeds in revealing the interconnections between science and the supernatural in writings (both scientific and literary) in the 1880s and 1890s.' The British Society for Literature and Science 'Hilary Grimes offers a valuable contribution to the recent growth of scholarship on the supernatural and spiritualism in the Victorian period generally and as it manifests in literature. Any scholar of the fantastic working in the late Victorian period should find this book a worthwhile read.' Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

'Grimes’s analysis of Kipling’s Wireless with its use of the telegraph, automatic writing, and the possible channeling of the spirits of John Keats and Fanny Brawne is particularly intriguing and provides a historic link to contemporary gothic texts that use technology, such as the Internet and cell phones, as a conduit into the spirit world. Summing up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.' Choice 'The Late Victorian Gothic provides an interesting and detailed investigation of issues like spiritualism, mental science, hypnotism, which have lately been at the core of a renewed attention by Victorian literary critics. Such topics are well contextualized in the late Victorian social scene and actively linked to its multifaceted cultural dynamics... useful text for specialists in the field, as well as an enjoyable and valuable source for those who would like to extend their knowledge about late Victorian literature and culture'. Rivista di Studi Vittoriani '... lucid, smart and concise.' Victorian Studies ’...succeeds in revealing the interconnections between science and the supernatural in writings (both scientific and literary) in the 1880s and 1890s.’ The British Society for Literature and Science 'Hilary Grimes offers a valuable contribution to the recent growth of scholarship on the supernatural and spiritualism in the Victorian period generally and as it manifests in literature. Any scholar of the fantastic working in the late Victorian period should find this book a worthwhile read.' Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 'Grimes [offers] some interesting new readings of previously maligned literature. The book's discussion of how the supernatural and science were linked in scientific and fictional literature of the last two decades of the nineteenth century is undeniably its strength.' Supernatural Studies

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Hilary Grimes is an independent scholar living in Massachusetts, USA.

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