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1 online resource (239 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; 1. The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross; Forbidden Knowledge; The Philosopher's Stone and Elixir of Life; The Eternal Wanderer; 2. William Godwin's Darkness of Enlightenment; The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters; An Enlightenment Panacea: The Cure for Death; Godwin and Malthus; Lives of the Necromancers; St Leon -- A Rosicrucian Novel; Alchemist and Adept; The Anarchy of Immortality; St Godwin; Hermippus Redivivus; 3. Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Gothic Immortal; Science and Magic |
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The Bavarian IlluminatiNightmare Abbey; St Irvyne: The Rosicrucian; The Wandering Jew; 4. Mary Shelley and the Mortal Immortal; The Mortal Immortal; 'Valerius: The Reanimated Roman' and 'Roger Dodsworth: the Reanimated Englishman'; 'Transformation' and 'The Evil Eye'; Frankenstein; The Rosicrucian Cavern; Castle Frankenstein and Alchemist Dippel; Franklin and Frankenstein; The Botanic Garden and Female Monstrosity; The Illuminati and the Monster, Jacobin; The Unhallowed Arts; Rosicrucian Romanticism; 5. Maturin and the Rosicrucian Heresy; Fatal Revenge: A Gothic Melodrama |
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Heresies of the ImmortalMelmoth the Wanderer; 'The Enemy of Mankind'; Balzac and Melmoth Reconciled; 6. Bulwer-Lytton and the Rose and Cross; Novelist and Rose-Cross Brother; The Actual and the Ideal: The Rose and the Cross; Rosicrucian Short Stories; Zanoni: A Novel of Initiation; The Elixir of Life and the Dweller of the Threshold; The French Revolution and the Failed Ideal; Artist and Magician; A Strange Story; The Metaphysics of Immortality; Science and Sorcery; 7. The Problem of Immortality; Appendix: Sadak The Wanderer; Bibliography; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Godwin, William, 1756-1836. St. Leon.
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Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873 -- Knowledge -- Occultism
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Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873 fast |
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St. Leon (Godwin, William) fast |
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Horror tales, English -- History and criticism
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Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain
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Rosicrucians in literature.
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Occultism in literature.
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English fiction
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Gothic revival (Literature)
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Horror tales, English
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Occultism
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Occultism in literature
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Rosicrucians in literature
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
131720641X |
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9781317206415 |
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