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“Light no Smithfield Fires”: Some Victorian Attitudes to Witchcraft

2000; Wiley; Volume: 33; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.0022-3840.2000.3304_123.x

1540-5931

Maureen Moran,

Gothic Literature and Media Analysis

The Journal of Popular CultureVolume 33, Issue 4 p. 123-151 “Light no Smithfield Fires”: Some Victorian Attitudes to Witchcraft Maureen F. Moran, Maureen F. Moran Maureen F. Moran is Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Brunel University and Head of the Department of English where she teaches courses in nineteenth-century literature. She has published on Walter Scott, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Walter Pater, and popular fantasy writers, such as Tanith Lee. Her main research interests are Victorian and twentieth-century women fantasy writers and Victorian literature and religion.Search for more papers by this author Maureen F. Moran, Maureen F. Moran Maureen F. Moran is Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Brunel University and Head of the Department of English where she teaches courses in nineteenth-century literature. She has published on Walter Scott, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Walter Pater, and popular fantasy writers, such as Tanith Lee. 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