‘The Terror of Unseen Things’: Saki and the fin-de-siècle Pagan Revival
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13i10.20Keywords:
Neo-paganism, Saki, Pagan revivalAbstract
Saki grew up in a place in which the daily doings of the world were not always determined by the laws of science or the orthodoxies of the Anglican church.References
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Vansittart, P (1985) Voices 1870-1914 New York: Franklin Watts.
Boardman, J (1998) The Great God Pan: The Survival of an Image London: Thames & Hudson.
Brendon, P (1975), Hawker of Morwenstow: Portrait of a Victorian Eccentric London: Jonathan Cape.
Cavaliero, G (1977) The Rural Tradition in the English Novel 1900-1930 Basingstoke: Macmillan.
—-, (1997) The Supernatural in English Fiction Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cunningham, V (ed.) (2000) The Victorians: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics Oxford: Blackwell.
Davis, O (1999), A People Bewitched: Witchcraft and Magic in NineteenthCentury Somerset Bruton: Self-published.
Delaney, P (1987) The Neo-Pagans: Friendship and Love in the Rupert Brooke Circle Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Ebbatson, R (1980) Lawrence and the Nature Tradition: A Theme in English Fiction 1859-1914 Brighton: Harvester Press.
Fitzgerald, E ([1859] 1995) The Rubàiyat of Omar Khayyàm New York: Smithmark.
Forster, E.M. (1971) Maurice London: Edward Arnold.
Green, M ([1977] 1992) Children of the Sun: A Narrative of Decadence in England after 1918 London: Pimlico.
Greenslade W (1994), Degeneration, Culture & the Novel 1880-1940 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Greenslade, W. (2000), “Pan’ and the Open Road: Critical Paganism in R.[obert] L.[ouis] Stevenson, K[enneth] Grahame, E[dward] Thomas and E.M. Forster’ in Hapgood & Patton (below) pp.145-161.
Hapgood L & Patton, N.L. (2000) Outside Modernism: In Pursuit of the English Novel 1900-1930 Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Herbert, J (1974) The Rats London: New English Library.
Hutton, R. (1999), Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Jefferies, R ([1909] 1980) The Hills and the Vale Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kemp, S, et al. (1997) Edwardian Fiction: An Oxford Companion Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Machen, A ([1895] 1995) The Three Impostors ed. David Trotter London: Dent.
—-, The Hill of Dreams ([1907] 1998) Leyburn: Tartarus Press.
—-, ([1917]1963) ‘The Terror’ in Tales of Horror and the Supernatural London: Panther.
Merivale, P. (1969), Pan the Goat God: His Myth in Modern Times Cambridge. Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Pater, W (1973) Essays on Literature and Art ed. Jennifer Uglow, London: Dent.
Pearson, J. (2000), ‘Wicca, Esotericism and Living Nature: Assessing Wicca as a Nature Religion’, The Pomegranate 14, November 2000, pp.4-16.
Saki [H.H. Munro] ([1967]1982) The Complete Saki Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Stock, R.D. (1989), The Flutes of Dionysus: Daemonic Enthrallment in Literature Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press.
Vansittart, P (1985) Voices 1870-1914 New York: Franklin Watts.
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2001-08-01
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Freeman, N. (2001). ‘The Terror of Unseen Things’: Saki and the fin-de-siècle Pagan Revival. Pomegranate, 17(Summer), 20-33. https://doi.org/10.1558/pome.v13i10.20
