Book Chapter
New Religions and Esotericism
Ferguson C (2020) New Religions and Esotericism. In: Denisoff D & Schaffer T (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature. Routledge Literature Companions. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 414-425. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Victorian-Literature-1st-Edition/Denisoff-Schaffer/p/book/9781138579866
Book Chapter
Women Writers and the Theosophical Tale of Terror
Ferguson C Women Writers and the Theosophical Tale of Terror. In: Palgrave Gothic. https://www.palgrave.com/gb
Article
Beyond Belief: Literature, Esotericism Studies, and the Challenge of Biographical Reading in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Land of Mist
Ferguson C (2020) Beyond Belief: Literature, Esotericism Studies, and the Challenge of Biographical Reading in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Land of Mist. Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism. https://brill.com/view/journals/arie/arie-overview.xml
Article
The Luciferian Public Sphere: Theosophy and Editorial Seekership in the 1880s
Ferguson C (2020) The Luciferian Public Sphere: Theosophy and Editorial Seekership in the 1880s. Victorian Periodicals Review, 53 (1), pp. 76-101. https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2020.0012
Keynote
“‘Where Sex is the First Great Teacher:’ Rape and Reincarnation in the Woman’s Occult Romance.”
Ferguson C (2020) “‘Where Sex is the First Great Teacher:’ Rape and Reincarnation in the Woman’s Occult Romance.”. British Women Writers Conference, Texas Christian University, 05.03.2020-07.03.2020.
Book Chapter
What does Popular Fiction have to do with the Occult?
Ferguson C (2019) What does Popular Fiction have to do with the Occult?. In: Hanegraaf W, Forshaw P & Pasi M (eds.) Hermes Explains: Thirty Questions about Esotericism. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Keynote
“Journoccultism: Newspaper Scrying from Machen to Fort.”
Ferguson C (2019) “Journoccultism: Newspaper Scrying from Machen to Fort.”. Approaching Esotericism and Mysticism: Cultural Influences, The Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History and Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, 05.06.2019-07.06.2019.
Keynote
Anna Kingsford and the Intuitive Science of Occultism
Ferguson C (2019) Anna Kingsford and the Intuitive Science of Occultism. Science and Spiritualism: 1750-1930, Leeds Trinity University, 30.05.2019-31.10.2020.
Article
'The More Subtle Inquisitor:' Arthur Machen as Early Reviewer of Dubliners for Grant Richards
Ferguson C (2018) 'The More Subtle Inquisitor:' Arthur Machen as Early Reviewer of Dubliners for Grant Richards. Dublin James Joyce Journal, 9, pp. 122-134. http://www.ucd.ie/englishdramafilm/research/jamesjoyceresearchcentre/jjrc-dublinjamesjoycejournal/
Edited Book
The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947
Ferguson C & Radford A (eds.) (2018) The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947. Among the Victorians and Modernists, 6. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Occult-Imagination-in-Britain-1875-1947/Ferguson-Radford/p/book/9781472486981
Book Chapter
Dracula and the Occult
Ferguson C (2017) Dracula and the Occult. In: Luckhurst R (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Dracula. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 57-65. http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/literature/english-literature-1830-1900/cambridge-companion-dracula?format=HB#eg64W44bpHs7c0XO.97
Keynote
Imagined Publics and Occult Mediation.”
Ferguson C (2017) Imagined Publics and Occult Mediation.”. The Medial Breakthrough in Norwegian Literature, 1855-1905, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 20.06.2017-21.10.2020.
Book Chapter
Occult Sciences
Ferguson C (2017) Occult Sciences. In: Holmes J & Ruston S (eds.) The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 423-437. https://www.routledge.com/The-Ashgate-Research-Companion-to-Nineteenth-Century-British-Literature/Holmes-Ruston/p/book/9781472429872
Article
Reading with the Occultists: Arthur Machen, A. E. Waite, and the Ecstasies of Popular Fiction
Ferguson C (2016) Reading with the Occultists: Arthur Machen, A. E. Waite, and the Ecstasies of Popular Fiction. Journal of Victorian Culture, 21 (1), pp. 40-55. https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2015.1123170
Book Chapter
Mixed Media: Olivia Plender’s A Stellar Key to the Summerland and the Afterlife of Spiritualist Visual Culture
Ferguson C (2016) Mixed Media: Olivia Plender’s A Stellar Key to the Summerland and the Afterlife of Spiritualist Visual Culture. In: Jones A & Mitchell R (eds.) Drawing on the Victorians: The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Graphic Texts. Series in Victorian Studies. Athens, OH, USA: Ohio University Press, pp. 121-150. http://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Drawing+on+the+Victorians
Book Chapter
Arthur Machen
Ferguson C (2015) Arthur Machen. In: Felluga D (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 969-972. http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118405382.html
Book Chapter
Illustrating the Abyss: An Interview with Catherine Anyango on Heart of Darkness (2010)
Ferguson C (2015) Illustrating the Abyss: An Interview with Catherine Anyango on Heart of Darkness (2010). In: Tabachnick S & Saltzman E (eds.) Drawn from the Classics: Essays on Graphic Adaptations of Literary Works. Jefferson, NC, USA: McFarland and Company, Inc. pp. 194-204. http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-7879-8
Article
Other Worlds: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Cross-Cultures of Spiritualism
Ferguson C (2015) Other Worlds: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Cross-Cultures of Spiritualism. Victorian Review, 41 (2), pp. 177-191. https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2015.0006
Book Chapter
Introduction
Ferguson C (2014) Introduction. In: Ferguson C (ed.) Spiritualism 1840-1930: Vol. 1: Health, Race, and Human Variation. Victorian Concepts. London: Routledge, pp. 1-20. https://www.routledge.com/Spiritualism-1840-1930/Pulham-Ferguson-Arias-Kontou/p/book/9780415683067
Keynote
“From Anxiety to Ecstasy: Arthur Machen, A.E. Waite, and the Mysticist Redemption of Victorian Popular Fiction.”
Ferguson C (2014) “From Anxiety to Ecstasy: Arthur Machen, A.E. Waite, and the Mysticist Redemption of Victorian Popular Fiction.”. Anxious Forms, University of Glasgow, 22.08.2014.
Article
Neo-Victorian Presence: Tom Phillips and the Non-Hermeneutic Past
Ferguson C (2013) Neo-Victorian Presence: Tom Phillips and the Non-Hermeneutic Past. Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, 18 (3), pp. 22-57. http://openjournals.library.usyd.edu.au/index.php/AJVS/article/view/9383/9282
Edited Book
Spiritualism, 1840-1930 : Victorian Concepts
(2013) Spiritualism, 1840-1930 : Victorian Concepts [Volume 1: Spiritualism: Health, Race, and Human Variation]. Victorian Concepts. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com
Authored Book
Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848-1930
Ferguson C (2012) Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848-1930. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-determined-spirits.html
Book Chapter
Recent Scholarship on Spiritualism and Science
Ferguson C (2012) Recent Scholarship on Spiritualism and Science. In: Kontou T & Willburn S (eds.) The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult. Ashgate Research Companion. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 19-24. https://www.routledge.com/The-Ashgate-Research-Companion-to-Nineteenth-Century-Spiritualism-and-the/Kontou-Willburn/p/book/9780754669128
Article
Recent Studies in Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism
Ferguson C (2012) Recent Studies in Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism. Literature Compass, 9 (6), pp. 431-440. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2012.00890.x
Article
Surface Tensions: Steampunk, Subculture, and the Ideology of Style
Ferguson C (2011) Surface Tensions: Steampunk, Subculture, and the Ideology of Style. Neo-Victorian Studies, 4 (2), pp. 66-90. http://www.neovictorianstudies.com/
Article
Zola in Ghostland: Spiritualist Literary Criticism and Naturalist Supernaturalism
Ferguson C (2010) Zola in Ghostland: Spiritualist Literary Criticism and Naturalist Supernaturalism. SEL Studies in English Literature, 50 (4), pp. 877-894. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/404724/summary
Article
Victoria-Arcana and the Misogynistic Poetics of Resistance in Iain Sinclair’s White Chappell Scarlet Tracings and Alan Moore’s From Hell
Ferguson C (2009) Victoria-Arcana and the Misogynistic Poetics of Resistance in Iain Sinclair’s White Chappell Scarlet Tracings and Alan Moore’s From Hell. LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, 20 (1-2), pp. 45-64. https://doi.org/10.1080/10436920802690430
Book Chapter
Steampunk and the Visualization of the Victorian: Teaching Alan Moore’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and From Hell
Ferguson C (2009) Steampunk and the Visualization of the Victorian: Teaching Alan Moore’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and From Hell. In: Tabachnick S (ed.) Approaches to Teaching the Graphic Novel. Options for Teaching. New York: MLA, pp. 200-207. https://www.mla.org/Publications/Bookstore/Options-for-Teaching/Teaching-the-Graphic-Novel
Article
Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist" (1891)
Ferguson C (2009) Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist" (1891). Victorian Review, 35 (1), pp. 64-68. https://doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2009.0020
Article
Sensational Dependence: Prosthesis and Affect in Dickens and Braddon
Ferguson C (2008) Sensational Dependence: Prosthesis and Affect in Dickens and Braddon. LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, 19 (1), pp. 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/10436920701884688
Book Chapter
Elephant Talk: Language and Enfranchisement in the Merrick Case
Ferguson C (2008) Elephant Talk: Language and Enfranchisement in the Merrick Case. In: Tromp M (ed.) Victorian Freaks: The Social Work of Nineteenth-Century Freakery. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, pp. 114-133. https://ohiostatepress.org/books/Book%20Pages/Tromp%20Victorian.html
Article
Eugenics and the Afterlife: Lombroso, Doyle, and the Spiritualist Purification of the Race
Ferguson C (2007) Eugenics and the Afterlife: Lombroso, Doyle, and the Spiritualist Purification of the Race. Journal of Victorian Culture, 12 (1), pp. 64-85. https://doi.org/10.3366/jvc.2006.12.1.64
Authored Book
Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle: The Brutal Tongue
Ferguson C (2006) Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle: The Brutal Tongue. The Nineteenth Century Series. Aldershot: Ashgate. https://www.routledge.com/Language-Science-and-Popular-Fiction-in-the-Victorian-Fin-de-Siecle/Ferguson/p/book/9780754650829
Article
Footnotes on Trilby: The Human Foot as Evolutionary Icon in Late Victorian Culture
Ferguson C (2006) Footnotes on Trilby: The Human Foot as Evolutionary Icon in Late Victorian Culture. Nineteenth Century Contexts, 28 (2), pp. 127-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/08905490600849550
Article
Non-Standard Language and the Cultural Stakes of Stoker’s Dracula
Ferguson C (2004) Non-Standard Language and the Cultural Stakes of Stoker’s Dracula. ELH: English Literary History, 71 (1), pp. 229-249. https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2004.0015
Article
Decadence as Scientific Fulfillment
Ferguson C (2002) Decadence as Scientific Fulfillment. PMLA : Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 117 (3), pp. 465-478. http://www.jstor.org/stable/823145