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People everywhere have always had a sweet tooth for the unreal, enthralled by what should be taken as too good to be true. Why do people ignore the obvious and believe the bizarre?
Writers like Virginia Woolf, Arthur Conan Doyle and J.M. Barrie suffered personal loss during the First World War. Their grief and insight helped readers with their own post-war collective grief.
Arthur Conan Doyle may have stitched something into the detective books that nobody ever noticed.
BBC One’s The Living and the Dead revels in the Victorians’ obsession with the supernatural and the limits of science.
For too long the Scottish writer was seen as a populist pedlar of boy’s own adventures. This didn’t happen by accident.
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Professor of English Literature, Edinburgh Napier University
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Lecturer in Victorian Literature, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Music, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of English and Creative Writing, Thompson Rivers University
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Professor of Business Administration and of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
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Lecturer in Victorian literature and culture, University of Bristol
