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245 10 a| Light on the path :b| advancing occultism through esoteric fiction, 1880-1940 /c| Mark S. Morrisson.;

264 1 a| New York, NY :b| Oxford University Press,c| [2025];

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490 1 a| Oxford studies in Western esotericism;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

520 a| "In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Britain and America experienced an occult revival, a flourishing "occulture" that signaled the increasing presence of the occult in the popular imagination. This period also witnessed another major cultural development--a rapid expansion of print culture that offered a dizzying array of new magazines, pulp fiction, cheap single volume and even paperback novels, and emerging forms of genre fiction, all designed to meet (and create) the demands of a growing fiction readership. Light on the Path explores the surprising interdependence of these two phenomena. As supernatural fiction moved in increasingly occult directions, modern occultism itself became so entangled with popular fiction that it might be understood as a literary phenomenon. This was not coincidental. This book recounts the strategic efforts by modern occultists, including Mabel Collins, Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune, Kenneth Morris, and Talbot Mundy, to use popular fiction to wrest esotericism away from its traditional modes of secrecy and make esoteric experiences of self-transformation widely accessible"-- Provided by publisher.;

505 0 a| The emergence of esoteric fiction: the long view -- Mabel Collin's theosophical fiction: authorship, authoirty, and romances of reincarnation -- Aleister Crowley: modernist esoteric fiction, the "Crowley Syndicate," and the great work -- Dion Fortune's novels of the 1930s: the reading of genre fiction, psychotherapeutics, and esoteric initiation -- Katherine Tingley's Lomaland: esoteric wisdom, exoteric evangelism, and Kenneth Morris's theosophical -- Talbot Mundy at Lomaland: esoteric adventure literature for the masses.;

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Light on the path : advancing occultism through esoteric fiction, 1880-1940 / Mark S. Morrisson.

Author/creator	Morrisson, Mark S. author.
Format	Book
Publication	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Description	viii, 246 pages ; 25 cm.
Subjects	Occultism in literature. English fiction--20th century. --History and criticism. American fiction--20th century. --History and criticism. English fiction--19th century. --History and criticism. American fiction--19th century. --History and criticism.

Series	Oxford studies in Western esotericism Oxford studies in Western esotericism. ^A1344243
Contents	The emergence of esoteric fiction: the long view -- Mabel Collin's theosophical fiction: authorship, authoirty, and romances of reincarnation -- Aleister Crowley: modernist esoteric fiction, the "Crowley Syndicate," and the great work -- Dion Fortune's novels of the 1930s: the reading of genre fiction, psychotherapeutics, and esoteric initiation -- Katherine Tingley's Lomaland: esoteric wisdom, exoteric evangelism, and Kenneth Morris's theosophical -- Talbot Mundy at Lomaland: esoteric adventure literature for the masses.
Abstract	"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Britain and America experienced an occult revival, a flourishing "occulture" that signaled the increasing presence of the occult in the popular imagination. This period also witnessed another major cultural development--a rapid expansion of print culture that offered a dizzying array of new magazines, pulp fiction, cheap single volume and even paperback novels, and emerging forms of genre fiction, all designed to meet (and create) the demands of a growing fiction readership. Light on the Path explores the surprising interdependence of these two phenomena. As supernatural fiction moved in increasingly occult directions, modern occultism itself became so entangled with popular fiction that it might be understood as a literary phenomenon. This was not coincidental. This book recounts the strategic efforts by modern occultists, including Mabel Collins, Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune, Kenneth Morris, and Talbot Mundy, to use popular fiction to wrest esotericism away from its traditional modes of secrecy and make esoteric experiences of self-transformation widely accessible"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form	Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Morrisson, Mark S. Light on the path New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2025 9780197773277
Genre/form	Literary criticism.
Genre/form	Critiques littéraires.
LCCN	2025024259
ISBN	9780197773246
ISBN	0197773249 hardcover
ISBN	electronic book
ISBN	electronic publication

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