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Christine Ferguson - Land of Mist and Other Spiritualist Writings, Inbunden

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Land of Mist and Other Spiritualist Writings

Av Christine Ferguson

Del i serien Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle

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This book reunites Arthur Conan Doyle’s remarkable 1926 psychic novel The Land of Mist, with the erotically charged, religiously provocative and previously unpublished chapter, ‘The Darker Side’, after over a century of separation. The book includes an introduction, a textual essay, critical apparatus, explanatory notes and thirty-one illustrations by F.E. Hiley from the work’s original serialisation in the Strand. It represents Conan Doyle’s most sustained and earnest fictional exploration of the spiritualist movement to which he dedicated the last years of his life. Here the author repurposes the famous protagonist of his popular Professor Challenger series for spiritualist ends, hoping that the bellicose scientist’s dramatic conversion to afterlife belief would inspire a similar effect among its readers.
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Christine Ferguson is Professor of English Studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Stirling, where her research focuses on the entwined histories of the literary gothic and the British occult revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She is author of Open Secrets: The Popular Fiction of Britain’s Occult Revival (2025), Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity, and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing 1848-1930 (2012) and Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin de Siècle (2006). Her previous editions include, with Andrew Radford, The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 (2018), and, as solo editor, a volume on Spiritualism, Health, Race, and Human Variation for Routledge’s Spiritualism 1840-1930 facsimile edition series (2014).

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This is an important moment in the history of the publication of Arthur Conan Doyle. Christine Ferguson’s landmark edition of The Land of Mist finally allows us to understand this much-misunderstood novel for what it really is: Conan Doyle’s most personal novel, the one in which his deeply-held Spiritualist views get their fullest fictional exploration. Far from being, as is often thought, an anomaly or an outlier in his work, Ferguson reclaims The Land of Mist as perhaps the key book for understanding the later Conan Doyle. For the first time, we get to read The Land of Mist in the context in which it belongs, surrounded by Conan Doyle’s other Spiritualist writings. Ferguson’s meticulously edited, brilliantly annotated edition of The Land of Mist changes the way we look at Conan Doyle’s later life and work.

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