{"product_id":"open-secrets-christine-ferguson-9780197651599","title":"Open Secrets: The Popular Fiction of Britain's Occult Revival, 1842-1936","description":"\u003cem\u003eOpen Secrets\u003c\/em\u003e examines the popular genre fiction produced by leading figures within Britain's occult revival from the 1840s to the 1930s, including Edward Bulwer Lytton, Emma Hardinge Britten, Marie Corelli, Mabel Collins, Arthur Machen, Charles Fort, Aleister Crowley, and Dion Fortune. Ferguson demonstrates how the revival's popular fictional output was always more than just a reflection of, or mode of propaganda for, unorthodox authorial belief or initiatory intention-this fascinating corpus became a charged site for genre innovation and formal experimentation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe rich spiritual and literary affordances of revival fiction, \u003cem\u003eOpen Secrets \u003c\/em\u003ereveals, were deeply interlinked and mutually transformative. As embraced by occult revivalists, popular literary genres such as the Bildungsroman, the romance, the new journalistic article, and the detective tale forged narrative routes into the unseen world, ones that alternately championed, tested, and challenged the esoteric philosophies and paranormal theories that inspired them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christine Ferguson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197651593\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197651599\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/18\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Christine Ferguson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46867272007935,"sku":"9780197651599","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_345e2792-d7e8-49c2-8a40-d29484cd4990.jpg?v=1747454337","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/open-secrets-christine-ferguson-9780197651599","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}