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Late-Victorian Paganism: the case of the Pagan Review

Bénédicte Coste

subject

Cultural Studiespaganismeétudes de genre[SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureLiterature and Literary Theory[ SHS.HIST ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Historymedia_common.quotation_subjectfin de siècleArt history[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteraturePagan Review (The)néo-paganisme[ SHS ] Humanities and Social Sciencesgendergenre littérairelate-nineteenth century paganismliterary genremedia_commonPaganismLiterary genreArtPagan Review[ SHS.LITT ] Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureFin de siecleneo-paganism[SHS.HIST] Humanities and Social Sciences/Historylcsh:DA1-995lcsh:History of Great Britain[SHS] Humanities and Social Sciences[SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/HistoryHumanities

description

Cet article traite de l’unique numéro de la Pagan Review paru en Grande-Bretagne en 1892 sous la seule plume de William Sharp, poète, critique littéraire et romancier qui devait par ailleurs rencontrer le succès sous le pseudonyme de Fiona MacLeod dès 1894. Rédigé à une époque de profonde réflexion personnelle par Sharp, la Pagan Review porte également l’empreinte du remaniement religieux et littéraire de la fin du siècle et témoigne de la recherche de l’expression littéraire d’une subjectivité revendiquant un certain syncrétisme religieux, l’égalité des sexes et le cosmopolitisme culturel. This article discusses the sole issue of the Pagan Review (1892) single-handedly authored by William Sharp under various pen names. Sharp was a poet, literary critic and novelist who began publishing under the pen name of Fiona MacLeod in 1894. Penned down in an astonishingly brief time when Sharp was experiencing a deep personal change, The Pagan Review also manifests late-nineteenth-century religious and literary change as can be seen in its search for a new subjectivity. Sharp’s pagans claim gender equality, and express both cultural cosmopolitanism and a peculiar form of syncretism.

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