Examining the intersection of occult spirituality, text, and
gender, this book provides a compelling analysis of the occult
revival in literature from the 1880s through the course of the
twentieth century. Bestselling novels such as The Da Vinci Code
play with magic and the fascination of hidden knowledge, while
occult and esoteric subjects have become very visible in literature
during the twentieth century. This study analyses literature by
women occultists such as Alice Bailey, Dion Fortune, and Starhawk,
and revisits texts with occult motifs by canonical authors such as
Sylvia Townsend Warner, Leonora Carrington, and Angela Carter. This
material, which has never been analysed in a literary context,
covers influential movements such as Theosophy, Spiritualism,
Golden Dawn, Wicca, and Goddess spirituality. Wallraven engages
with the question of how literature functions as the medium for
creating occult worlds and powerful identities, particularly the
female Lucifer, witch, priestess, and Goddess. Based on the concept
of ancient wisdom, the occult in literature also incorporates
topical discourses of the twentieth century, including
psychoanalysis, feminism, pacifism, and ecology. Hence, as an
ever-evolving discursive universe, it presents alternatives to
religious truth claims that often lead to various forms of
fundamentalism that we encounter today. This book offers a
ground-breaking approach to interpreting the forms and functions of
occult texts for scholars and students of literary and cultural
studies, religious studies, sociology, and gender studies.
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