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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction. Rewriting the Soul: The Persistence of a Concept -- The Metaphysical Vision of the Soul -- The Secularization of the Soul and the Emergence of the Psychic Subject -- Postsecular Souls -- Apprehending the Soul and Its Persistence -- Writing the Soul -- The Aesthetics of the Soul -- The Ethics and Politics of the Soul -- Works Cited -- Part I: Writing the Soul -- Chapter 2: Egyptian Souls in Victorian Minds: The Transmigration of the "Ka" in Egyptianising Fiction -- Reincarnation and the Quest for Identity -- Invasion of the British Body: Transmigration and Reverse Colonisation -- From the Soul to the Mind: An Archaeology of the Psyche -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: E. S. Dallas's Literary Theory: The "Hidden Soul" and the Workings of the Imagination -- Dallas's Scientific Criticism: At the Borders of the Hidden Soul and the Poetic Imagination -- Dallas's Influence on Literary Authors -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: "You Haven't Let Me Call My Soul My Own": Soul, Psyche and the Thrill of Nothingness in May Sinclair's Mary Olivier: A Life -- Theorising the Soul -- Souls, Bildungsroman and Female Empowerment -- The Thrill of Nothingness? -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: Spectrality and Narrative Form in George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo -- Derrida and Hauntology -- Tracing Form -- Tracing Religion -- Finding the Soul -- The Past in the Present -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: Forging in the Smithy of David Foster Wallace's Postmodern Soul -- "There Is Actually No Such Thing as Atheism" -- The Ghost of the System -- Of Minds and Souls: Wallace-the-Sinthome -- Works Cited -- Part II: The Aesthetics of the Soul -- Chapter 7: Transmutations of the Soul: Anima and Her Heart in Christopher Harvey's School of the Heart (1647) -- Works Cited.
Chapter 8: Let Us Go Forward: The Soul, Spiritualism, and the Funerary Commemoration of Richard Cosway, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Evelyn De Morgan -- Richard Cosway (1742-1821) "Art Weeps. Taste Mourns, and Genius Drops Her Tear" -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) "Honoured Among Painters as a Painter and Among Poets as a Poet" -- Evelyn De Morgan (1855-1919) "Sorrow is only of Earth -- the life of the Spirit is Joy" -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9: "Dancing the American Soul: Secular and Sacred Motifs in the Choreographic American Renaissance" -- Choreographing the American Soul -- Dancing the Frontier: Cowboys and Pioneers -- The American Renaissance in Dance and Classical Myths -- "The Orient Is in the West" (Emily Dickinson): The Spiritual Frontier-Oriental Philosophy and the New American Soul -- Ruth Saint Denis, Martha Graham, and the Supreme Soul -- The Spiritual Children of Walt Whitman -- Works Cited -- Chapter 10: Casting the Soul: Antony Gormley's Sculptures -- Representing the Soul -- The Emptiness and Lightness of Gormley's Bodies: Perceiving the Imperceptible -- Works Cited -- Chapter 11: Sweet Soul Music -- Introduction -- Origins and Features: Soul Music as Palimpsest -- Souls in Faith -- Souls in Love -- Souls in Hope of Change: Social Political, and Ecological Consciousness -- Soul Music as Universal: And Pluriversal -- Conclusion: SZA, Sheeran and the Persistence of Soul -- Works Cited -- Part III: The Ethics and Politics of the Soul -- Chapter 12: Colliding Circles: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Concept of the Soul Between Spiritual Self-Realization and Materialistic Expansion -- The Nomadic Soul -- Spiritual Capital and Capitalist Spirit -- The Limitations of Expansiveness -- A Soul for the Twenty-First Century -- Works Cited -- Chapter 13: "Souls on Board": A Counter-History of Modern Mobility -- The Middle Passage -- Slave Shipwrecks.
Works Cited -- Chapter 14: African American Women's Literary Renaissance: A Template for Spiritual Fiction in the Twenty-First Century? -- Introduction: The Spiritual Turn in African American Fiction by Women -- Toni Morrison's Emancipatory Fiction: Revisiting Christian Experience -- Toni Cade Bambara's Esoteric Holism -- Alice Walker's Pantheism -- Magic Realism in Gloria Naylor's Fiction -- Works Cited -- Chapter 15: Persisting Souls in a Persisting Myth: Appropriation and Transmigration in Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013) -- Introduction: From Ingolstadt to Baghdad -- Soul, Spirit and Principle of Life in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Bodyless Souls and Soulless Bodies in the City of Demons -- Restless Souls, Endless Revenge and the Dislocation of Meaning -- Conclusion: The Persistence of Shelley's Myth -- Works Cited -- Index.
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Dickens and the Virtual City : Urban Perception and the Production of Social Space / / edited by Estelle Murail, Sara Thornton
