Imagining the Occult in the Age of Enlightenment

Corcoran, Miranda

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“…As Miranda Corcoran notes elsewhere, 'The relationship between Enlightenment thought and the occult was deeply complex, culturally contingent and often highly unstable'. 56 The Phantasmagoria exemplifies this complexity. As an early example of 'dark media', the success of phantasmagoric projections was dependent on the viewer's desire to believe in the quasi-supernatural nature of machinery, to give themselves over to the hope that the shrouded mechanism from which they knew the ersatz phantasms emanated might have made contact with the other side.…”

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‘Pseudonecromantic spectres’: dark media and the technological sublime in eighteenth-century phantasmagoria

Corcoran¹,

Carlo²

2022

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Her research interests include genre fiction, popular fiction, comics/graphic novels, sci-fi, horror, the gothic, witchcraft, and Satanism in pop culture. She is also the co-editor (with Steve Gronert Ellerhoff) of Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction: Ray Bradbury's Elliott Family (Routledge, 2020). Her first monograph, Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches, was published in June 2022 by the University of Wales Press. She is currently co-editing a collection entitled Satanism and Feminism in Popular Culture: Not Today Satan. Miranda Corcoran est Maîtresse de conférences en littérature du XXI e siècle à University College Cork. Dans sa recherche elle s'intéresse à la fiction genrée, la fiction populaire, les romans illustrés et comics, la science fiction, l'horreur, le gothique, la sorcellerie et le satanisme dans la culture pop. Elle a également co-dirigé (avec Steve Gronert Ellerhoff) Exploring the Horror of

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confidence: 99%