The Persistence of the Soul in Literature, Art and Politics

Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction. Rewriting the Soul: The Persistence of a Concept
	The Metaphysical Vision of the Soul
	The Secularization of the Soul and the Emergence of the Psychic Subject
	Postsecular Souls
	Apprehending the Soul and Its Persistence
		Writing the Soul
		The Aesthetics of the Soul
		The Ethics and Politics of the Soul
	Works Cited
Part I: Writing the Soul
	Chapter 2: Egyptian Souls in Victorian Minds: The Transmigration of the “Ka” in Egyptianising Fiction
		Reincarnation and the Quest for Identity
		Invasion of the British Body: Transmigration and Reverse Colonisation
		From the Soul to the Mind: An Archaeology of the Psyche
		Works Cited
	Chapter 3: E. S. Dallas’s Literary Theory: The “Hidden Soul” and the Workings of the Imagination
		Dallas’s Scientific Criticism: At the Borders of the Hidden Soul and the Poetic Imagination
		Dallas’s Influence on Literary Authors
		Works Cited
	Chapter 4: “You Haven’t Let Me Call My Soul My Own”: Soul, Psyche and the Thrill of Nothingness in May Sinclair’s Mary Olivier: A Life
		Theorising the Soul
		Souls, Bildungsroman and Female Empowerment
		The Thrill of Nothingness?
		Works Cited
	Chapter 5: Spectrality and Narrative Form in George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo
		Derrida and Hauntology
		Tracing Form
		Tracing Religion
		Finding the Soul
		The Past in the Present
		Works Cited
	Chapter 6: Forging in the Smithy of David Foster Wallace’s Postmodern Soul
		“There Is Actually No Such Thing as Atheism”
		The Ghost of the System
		Of Minds and Souls: Wallace-the-Sinthome
		Works Cited
Part II: The Aesthetics of the Soul
	Chapter 7: Transmutations of the Soul: Anima and Her Heart in Christopher Harvey’s School of the Heart (1647)
		Works Cited
	Chapter 8: Let Us Go Forward: The Soul, Spiritualism, and the Funerary Commemoration of Richard Cosway, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Evelyn De Morgan
		Richard Cosway (1742–1821) “Art Weeps. Taste Mourns, and Genius Drops Her Tear”
		Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) “Honoured Among Painters as a Painter and Among Poets as a Poet”
		Evelyn De Morgan (1855–1919) “Sorrow is only of Earth; the life of the Spirit is Joy”
		Works Cited
	Chapter 9: “Dancing the American Soul: Secular and Sacred Motifs in the Choreographic American Renaissance”
		Choreographing the American Soul
			Dancing the Frontier: Cowboys and Pioneers
			The American Renaissance in Dance and Classical Myths
		“The Orient Is in the West” (Emily Dickinson): The Spiritual Frontier—Oriental Philosophy and the New American Soul
			Ruth Saint Denis, Martha Graham, and the Supreme Soul
			The Spiritual Children of Walt Whitman
		Works Cited
	Chapter 10: Casting the Soul: Antony Gormley’s Sculptures
		Representing the Soul
		The Emptiness and Lightness of Gormley’s Bodies: Perceiving the Imperceptible
		Works Cited
	Chapter 11: Sweet Soul Music
		Introduction
		Origins and Features: Soul Music as Palimpsest
		Souls in Faith
		Souls in Love
		Souls in Hope of Change: Social Political, and Ecological Consciousness
		Soul Music as Universal: And Pluriversal
		Conclusion: SZA, Sheeran and the Persistence of Soul
		Works Cited
Part III: The Ethics and Politics of the Soul
	Chapter 12: Colliding Circles: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Concept of the Soul Between Spiritual Self-Realization and Materialistic Expansion
		The Nomadic Soul
		Spiritual Capital and Capitalist Spirit
		The Limitations of Expansiveness
		A Soul for the Twenty-First Century
		Works Cited
	Chapter 13: “Souls on Board”: A Counter-History of Modern Mobility
		The Middle Passage
		Slave Shipwrecks
		Works Cited
	Chapter 14: African American Women’s Literary Renaissance: A Template for Spiritual Fiction in the Twenty-First Century?
		Introduction: The Spiritual Turn in African American Fiction by Women
		Toni Morrison’s Emancipatory Fiction: Revisiting Christian Experience
		Toni Cade Bambara’s Esoteric Holism
		Alice Walker’s Pantheism
		Magic Realism in Gloria Naylor’s Fiction
		Works Cited
	Chapter 15: Persisting Souls in a Persisting Myth: Appropriation and Transmigration in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013)
		Introduction: From Ingolstadt to Baghdad
			Soul, Spirit and Principle of Life in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
			Bodyless Souls and Soulless Bodies in the City of Demons
			Restless Souls, Endless Revenge and the Dislocation of Meaning
		Conclusion: The Persistence of Shelley’s Myth
		Works Cited
Index