Occult Novels of Dion Fortune

Literary Initiations

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvGeorgia van Raalte,Georgia Van Raalte,Georgia van Raalte

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This monograph explores the work of Dion Fortune, one of the most prolific British occult authors of the interwar period, and her claim that her books had an initiatory quality.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-01-29
Mått148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt446 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor245
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031740572

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Georgia van Raalte holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Surrey, UK. Her academic research explores initiation, esotericism, and occult literature. She is also an esoteric theologian and a pagan priestess. She has published academic texts alongside books of esoteric theology, ritual, and poetry. Her academic research, artistic practice and theological work are all concerned with initiation: with mystical, literary, and artistic provocations of transcendence, and the personal, social and cultural transformations that are catalysed thereby.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Novels of Dion Fortune,.- Chapter 3: ‘Only Fools and Slovens do Otherwise:’ Negotiating an Egalitarian Initiation in The Winged Bull.- Chapter 4: ‘The Power of Day-Dream’: Cultural Regeneration and ‘Composition of Place’ in The Goat-Foot God.- Chapter 5: ‘The Ass that Carries the Ark’: Initiation through Imagination in The Sea Priestess.- Chapter 6: The Adept and the Anima: Demonic Femininity, Descent and Initiation in Dion Fortune’s Moon Magic.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.