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Occultism: The Occult Sciences and the Occult Revival
Gothic Immortals
The Fiction of the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross
A literary study of the Rosicrucian adept in Gothic and Romantic fiction, from Godwin's St Leon and Shelley's St Irvyne to Bulwer-Lytton's Zanoni. It shows how novelists turned the legend of an immortal secret brotherhood into a vehicle for questions about knowledge, power and death.













