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From Spectres to the Strange: The Macabre Nineteenth Century

Journal: Nineteenth-Century Contexts

From Spectres to the Strange: The Macabre Nineteenth Century The nineteenth century's fervent scientific ambition, discovery, and invention, shook foundational beliefs in religious orthodoxies. With the century's consistent scientific development came a slow destabilisation of society's religious foundation. Beliefs surrounding 'truths' such as a divinely-appointed anthropocentric hierarchy, a blissful afterlife, an…