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18. Sabine Baring-Gould, The Book of Were-wolves: Being an Account of a
Terrible Superstition (London, Smith & Elder, 1865), p. xii.
19. Siebers, The Romantic Fantastic, pp. 23–4.
20. See, for example, Alex Owen, The Darkened Room: Women, Power and
Spiritualism in Late Victorian England (London: Virago, 1989); Elaine
Showalter, Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siècle (New
York: Viking, 1990); McClintock, Imperial Leather; Ruth Robbins and
Julian Wolfreys (eds), Victorian Identities: Social and Cultural Formations
in Nineteenth-Century Literature (London: Macmillan/New York:
St Martin’s Press, 1996).
21. ‘The Wehr-Wolf’, The Story-Teller, or Journal of Fiction, vol. 2 (1833), pp.
114, 116.
22. This understanding was exemplified in the Naturphilosophie (philosophy
of nature) deriving from the work of Friedrich Wilhelm von
Schelling (1775–1854), who argued that ‘Nature is visible Spirit, Spirit
is invisible Nature.’ Cited in Henri F. Ellenberger, The Discovery of
the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry
(New York: Basic Books, 1970), p. 202. See also Romanticism in Science:
Science in Europe, 1790–1840, ed. Stefano Poggi and Maurizio Bossi,
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 152 (1994). As Bossi
states (‘Preface’, p. ix), this volume is entirely devoted to essays exploring
various aspects of the ‘unitary vision of the universe’ characteristic
of Romantic science.
23. ‘The Wehr-Wolf’, p. 118.
24. Dudley Costello, ‘Lycanthropy in London; Or, the Wehr-Wolf of Wilton-
Crescent’, Bentley’s Miscellany 38 (October 1855), p. 366.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid., p. 363.
27. Kelly Hurley has noted the Gothic mode’s ‘virtual disappearance in the
middle of the century’, in The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and
Degeneration at the Fin de Siècle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1996), p. 4. Certainly, between the late 1850s and about 1875, there was a
significant absence of any new werewolf fiction.
28. Frederick Madden, ‘Introduction’, in F. Madden (ed.), William and the
Werwolf (London: William Nicol, Shakspeare-Press, 1832), p. xiii.
29. Algernon Herbert, ‘On Werewolves’, in Madden (ed.), William and the
Werwolf, p. 1.
30. T.W. Heyck, The Transformation of Intellectual Life in Victorian England
(London: Croom Helm, 1982), p. 50.
31. Sally Shuttleworth, Charlotte Bronte and Victorian Psychology (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 12–13.
32. Edward B. Tylor, Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development