The BeetleBroadview Press, 30.04.2004 - 364 Seiten The Beetle (1897) tells the story of a fantastical creature, “born of neither god nor man,” with supernatural and hypnotic powers, who stalks British politician Paul Lessingham through fin de siècle London in search of vengeance for the defilement of a sacred tomb in Egypt. In imitation of various popular fiction genres of the late nineteenth century, Marsh unfolds a tale of terror, late imperial fears, and the “return of the repressed,” through which the crisis of late imperial Englishness is revealed. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a rich selection of historical documents that situate the novel within the contexts of fin de siècle London, England’s interest and involvement in Egypt, the emergence of the New Woman, and contemporary theories of mesmerism and animal magnetism. |
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Acknowledgements | 7 |
Introduction | 9 |
A Brief Chronology | 35 |
A Note on the Text | 38 |
THE HOUSE WITH THE OPEN WINDOW | 39 |
OUTSIDE | 41 |
INSIDE | 47 |
THE MAN IN THE BED | 52 |
IN PURSUIT | 233 |
A NEW CLIENT | 235 |
WHAT CAME OF LOOKING THROUGH A LATTICE | 237 |
AFTER TWENTY YEARS | 245 |
A BRINGER OF TIDINGS | 252 |
WHAT THE TIDINGS WERE | 254 |
WHAT WAS HIDDEN UNDER THE FLOOR | 258 |
THE REST OF THE FIND | 264 |
A LONELY VIGIL | 56 |
AN INSTRUCTION TO COMMIT BURGLARY | 61 |
A SINGULAR FELONY | 69 |
THE GREAT PAUL LESSINGHAM | 75 |
THE MAN IN THE STREET | 82 |
THE CONTENTS OF THE PACKET | 84 |
THE HAUNTED MAN | 89 |
REJECTED | 91 |
A MIDNIGHT EPISODE | 96 |
A MORNING VISITOR | 102 |
THE PICTURE | 107 |
THE DUCHESS BALL | 117 |
MR LESSINGHAM SPEAKS | 125 |
ATHERTONS MAGIC VAPOUR | 131 |
MAGIC?OR MIRACLE? | 138 |
THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE BEETLE | 140 |
THE LADY RAGES | 153 |
A HEAVY FATHER | 157 |
THE TERROR IN THE NIGHT | 162 |
THE HAUNTED MAN | 172 |
THE TERROR BY NIGHT AND THE TERROR BY DAY | 185 |
THE WAY HE TOLD HER | 187 |
A WOMANS VIEW | 192 |
THE MAN IN THE STREET | 195 |
A FATHERS NO | 198 |
THE TERROR BY NIGHT | 202 |
THE STRANGE STORY OF THE MAN IN THE STREET | 207 |
THE HOUSE ON THE ROAD FROM THE WORKHOUSE | 216 |
THE SINGULAR BEHAVIOUR OF MR HOLT | 226 |
THE TERROR BY DAY | 228 |
MISS LOUISA COLEMAN | 268 |
WHAT MISS COLEMAN SAW THROUGH THE WINDOW | 276 |
THE CONSTABLEHIS CLUEAND THE CAB | 281 |
THE QUARRY DOUBLES | 287 |
THE MURDER AT MRS ENDERSONS | 292 |
THE MAN WHO WAS MURDERED | 301 |
THE SUDDEN STOPPING | 310 |
THE CONTENTS OF THE THIRDCLASS CARRIAGE | 317 |
THE CONCLUSION OF THE MATTER | 319 |
London in the fin de siècle | 323 |
From Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1886 | 324 |
From Henry James London 1888 | 325 |
From Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four 1890 | 326 |
From Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891 | 327 |
From Arthur Morrison A Child of the Jago 1896 | 328 |
The New Woman | 330 |
From Sarah Grand The New Aspect of the Woman Question North American Review March 1894 | 331 |
From Nat ArlingWhat is the Rôle of the New Woman? Westminster Review November 1898 | 333 |
From Kathleen Caffe A Reply from Daughters The Nineteenth Century March 1894 | 337 |
English Interest and Involvement in Egypt | 340 |
From J Norman Lockyer The Astronomy and Mythology of the Ancient Egyptians The Nineteenth Century July 1892 | 344 |
From Egypt London Quarterly Review April 1884 | 348 |
From Our Position in Egypt The Speaker 19 October 1891 | 351 |
Mesmerism and Animal Magnetism | 353 |
From James Esdaile Natural and Mesmeric Clairvoyance with the Practical Application of Mesmerism in Surgery and Medicine 1852 | 356 |
From Magic and Mesmerism Taits Edinburgh Magazine 50 1843 | 357 |
From Romulus Katscher Mesmerism Spiritualism and Hypnotism The Literary Digest 21 February 1891 | 358 |
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