Leigh Wilson is Reader in Modern Literature in the Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster. Her research focuses on modernism, on the place of supernatural and occult beliefs and practices in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and on the contemporary British novel. She is the author of Modernism and Magic: Experiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult (EUP, 2013).

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: ‘But the facts of life persist’: Magic, Experiment and the Problem of Representing the World Otherwise; Chapter 2: ‘And what has all this to do with experimental writing?’: Words and Ghosts; Chapter 3: A ‘subtle metamorphosis’: Sound, Mimesis and Transformation; Chapter 4: ‘Here is where the magic is’: Telepathy and Experiment in Film; Chapter 5: ‘Disney against the metaphysicals’: Eisenstein, Pound, Ectoplasm and the Politics of Animation; Bibliography; Index.

[A] valuable contribution towards a deeper understanding of the interrelatedness of occult discourses and those of modernist art.

Leigh Wilson is Reader in Modern Literature in the Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster. Her research focuses on modernism, on the place of supernatural and occult beliefs and practices in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and on the contemporary British novel. She is the author of Modernism and Magic: Experiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult (EUP, 2013).

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: ‘But the facts of life persist’: Magic, Experiment and the Problem of Representing the World Otherwise; Chapter 2: ‘And what has all this to do with experimental writing?’: Words and Ghosts; Chapter 3: A ‘subtle metamorphosis’: Sound, Mimesis and Transformation; Chapter 4: ‘Here is where the magic is’: Telepathy and Experiment in Film; Chapter 5: ‘Disney against the metaphysicals’: Eisenstein, Pound, Ectoplasm and the Politics of Animation; Bibliography; Index.

[A] valuable contribution towards a deeper understanding of the interrelatedness of occult discourses and those of modernist art.

Leigh Wilson is Reader in Modern Literature in the Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Westminster. Her research focuses on modernism, on the place of supernatural and occult beliefs and practices in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and on the contemporary British novel. She is the author of Modernism and Magic: Experiments with Spiritualism, Theosophy and the Occult (EUP, 2013).

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: ‘But the facts of life persist’: Magic, Experiment and the Problem of Representing the World Otherwise; Chapter 2: ‘And what has all this to do with experimental writing?’: Words and Ghosts; Chapter 3: A ‘subtle metamorphosis’: Sound, Mimesis and Transformation; Chapter 4: ‘Here is where the magic is’: Telepathy and Experiment in Film; Chapter 5: ‘Disney against the metaphysicals’: Eisenstein, Pound, Ectoplasm and the Politics of Animation; Bibliography; Index.

[A] valuable contribution towards a deeper understanding of the interrelatedness of occult discourses and those of modernist art.