Discourses of Paganism in the British and Irish Press During the Early Pagan Revival
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.27926Keywords:
Victorian history, Victorian religion, History of Neo-Paganism, Discourses of Paganism, British pagansAbstract
This paper aims to investigate popular conceptions of Paganism in Great Britain and Ireland during the early phases of the Pagan revival. It focuses specifically on the languages through which modern Paganism was articulated in contemporary newspaper and magazine articles. Drawing on the conceptual framework provided by Ronald Hutton, it seeks to map out the tangle of discourses from which modern perceptions and self-perceptions of revived Paganism emerged.References
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Delany, Paul. Fatal Glamour: The Life of Rupert Brooke. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2015.
Gay, Peter. The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Rise of Modern Paganism. New York: W.W. Norton, 1966.
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Hewitt, Martin. “Introduction: Victorian Milestones.” In The Victorian World, edited by Martin Hewitt, 1–54. London: Routledge, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446250754.n1.
Hilliard, David. “UnEnglish and Unmanly: Anglo-Catholicism and Homosexuality,” Victorian Studies 25, no. 2 (1982), 181–210.
Hutton, Ronald. Triumph of the Moon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198207443.001.0001.
Janes, Dominic. Victorian Reformation: The Fight over Idolatry in the Church Of England, 1840–1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195378511.001.0001.
Jones, Prudence, and Nigel Pennick. A History of Pagan Europe. London: Routledge, 1995.
Kidd, Colin, The World of Mr Casaubon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
King, Francis. Megatherion: The Magical World of Aleister Crowley. London: Creation, 2004.
Koppen, R. S. Virginia Woolf, Fashion and Literary Modernity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638727.001.0001
Lewis, James R. Witchcraft Today. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1999.
Morris, William. The Collected Works of William Morris, vol. 22. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Parisot, Eric. “Robert Buchanan and Christ, King of the Wandering Jews.” In Refashioning Myth: Poetic Transformations and Metamorphoses, edited by Jessica L. Wilkinson, Eric Parisot, and David McInnis, 93–112. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
Pater, Walter. “Aesthetic Poetry.” In Strangeness and Beauty: An Anthology of Aesthetic Criticism, 1840–1910, vol. 2., edited by Eric Warner and Graham Hough, 13–68. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Sammons, Jeffrey L. Heinrich Heine. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
Sturgis, Matthew. Passionate Attitudes: The English Decadence of the 1890s. London: Pallas Athene, 2011.
Thain, Marion. “’Damnable Aestheticism’ and the Turn to Rome.” In The Fin-de-Siècle Poem, edited by Joseph Bristow, 311–36. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2005.
Tobin, Thomas J. Worldwide Pre-Raphaelitism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005.
Webb, James. The Occult Underground. La Salle: Open Court, 1974.
Wiener, Joel H. “The Nineteenth Century and the Emergence of a Mass Circulation Press.” In The Routledge Companion to British Media History, edited by Martin Conboy and John Steel, 206–14. Abingdon: Routledge, 2015.
Williams, Kevin. Read All About It!: A History of the British Newspaper. Abingdon: Routledge, 2010.
Yates, Nigel. Anglican Ritualism in Victorian Britain 1830–1910. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Young, G. M. Portrait of an Age: Victorian England. London: Oxford University Press, 1977.
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2017-07-06
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Wheeler, G. J. (2017). Discourses of Paganism in the British and Irish Press During the Early Pagan Revival. Pomegranate, 19(1), 5-24. https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.27926
