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Secret texts : the literature of secret societies
- Title
- Secret texts : the literature of secret societies / edited by Marie Roberts and Hugh Ormsby-Lennon.
- Publication
- New York : AMS Press, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR149.S47 S43 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 349 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- AMS studies in cultural history ; no. 1
- Uniform Title
- AMS studies in cultural history ; no. 1.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Michael Foot -- 1. Alchemical Art and the Renaissance Emblem / Stanton J. Linden -- 2. Nature's Mystick Book: Renaissance Arcanum into Restoration Cant / Hugh J. Ormsby-Lennon -- 3. Science, Magic and Masonry: Swift's Secret Texts / Marie Mulvey Roberts -- 4. Yeats and the "Unknown Superiors": Swedenborg, Falk and Cagliostro / Marsha Keith Schuchard -- 5. Joel Barlow, Edmund Burke, and Fears of Masonic Conspiracy in 1792 / Carla J. Mulford -- 6. Peacock and the "Philosophical Gas" of the Illuminati / Gary R. Dyer -- 7. Freemasonry, the Brontes, and the Hidden Text of Jane Eyre / Elizabeth Imlay -- 8. The Mystic Impresario: Josephin Peladan, Founder of Le Salon de la Rose+Croix / Ingeborg M. Kohn -- 9. Orlick's Hammers and Pip's Third Degree / William M. Burgan -- 10. Acts of the Companions: A.E. Waite's Fellowship of the Rosy Cross and the Novels of Charles Williams / Thomas Willard --
- 11. "Two Circles to Gain and Two Squares to Lose": The Golden Dawn in Popular fiction / Robert A. Gilbert -- 12. Kim and the Magic House: Freemasonry and Kipling / Paul Rich -- Afterword / Jonathan Swift.
- ISBN
- 0404642519
- LCCN
- 91013789
- OCLC
- 23653927
- ocm23653927
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries