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"Shakespiritualism introduces a fascinating collection of individuals who imagined they could make contact with the living spirit of Shakespeare. Kahan acknowledges how easy it would be to dismiss their endeavors as silly if not mad, but to do so, he argues, would constitute a missed critical opportunity. For one thing, the very strangeness of the phenomenon helps to define by contrast the interpretive practice with which professional Shakespeareans are familiar. Then too, it's not so strange after all. Kahan points to surprising continuities between Shakespiritualism and our own work, and his darker purpose in this learned and appealing book is to suggest that a critical engagement with Shakespiritualism, while it is bound to remain a queer-looking enterprise, might help to enlarge our own practice beyond the unproductively narrow space within which it is sometimes enclosed." - Edward Pechter, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Concordia University, Canada and author of Shakespeare Studies Today
"Often biographical, Kahan's history is always interesting and entertaining. Including extensive notes and blibliography, this is a resource for Shakespeareans and those interested in the place of the occult in literary history." - CHOICE
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Book Title: Shakespiritualism
Book Subtitle: Shakespeare and the Occult, 1850–1950
Authors: Jeffrey Kahan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137313553
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Jeffrey Kahan 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-28220-0Published: 01 March 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-44853-1Published: 09 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-31355-3Published: 27 February 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 256
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, British and Irish Literature, Religious Studies, general