The Public Domain ReviewJul 5, 2023

NEW ESSAY — “Radioactive Fictions: Marie Corelli and the Omnipotence of Thoughts” — https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/radioactive-fictions

Outselling books by Arthur Conan Doyle and H. G. Wells in their day, Marie Corelli’s occult romance novels brim with fantasies of telepathy, mesmerism, and radioactivity. Steven Connor revisits The Life Everlasting (1911), where the recent discovery of radium shapes the mechanics of phantasmal machines and psychic forces able to pass through all impediments.

Radioactive Fictions: Marie Corelli and the Omnipotence of Thoughts

Outselling books by Arthur Conan Doyle and H. G. Wells in their day, Marie Corelli’s occult romance novels brim with fantasies of telepathy, mesmerism, and radioactivity. Steven Connor revisits The Life Everlasting (1911), where the recent discovery of radium shapes the mechanics of phantasmal machines and psychic forces able to pass through all impediments.

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Show threadSarah Burke Cahalan
@publicdomainrev My first thought looking at that image/date combo was “theosophy”—and, yep! Thanks for sharing this.
Aug 20, 2023 at 11:53amWeb