Review: Spirit Matters: Occult Beliefs, Alternative Religions, and the Crisis of Faith in Victorian Britain by J. Jeffrey Franklin

Katie Fry is a Sessional Lecturer at the Graduate Centre for Academic Communication, University of Toronto. Her essay “Lost Time and the Heterotopic Image in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz” appears in Mosaic (2018), and “Inter- and Extra-textual Hauntings: Unravelling the Semantic Web of Václav Havel’s Leaving” was published in New Theatre Quarterly (2015). She is currently revising her doctoral dissertation, “The Aesthetics of Redemption in fin-de-siècle Literature and the Arts,” for publication as a book.