Eric G. Wilson (NHC Fellow, 2003–04)

Project Title

The Occult Current: A Romantic Poetics of Electricity

Wake Forest University

Fellowship Work Summary, 2003–04

Eric G. Wilson drafted a complete manuscript of his book on Esoteric Theology and Modern Cinema, and wrote one chapter each for Coleridge's Melancholia: An Anatomy of Limbo (University Press of Florida, forthcoming Fall 2004), Romantic Sleepwalkers: On Matter and Spirit in the Age of Animal Magnetism (under contract with Palgrave MacMillan), and The Melancholy Android: A Psychological History of Sacred Machines.

Genre > Biographies

Coleridge’s Melancholia: An Anatomy of Limbo

Psychology / Literature / Philosophy / Poetry / Poets / Melancholy / Romanticism / Samuel Taylor Coleridge /

Genre > Monographs

Secret Cinema: Gnostic Vision in Film

Film and Media / Religion / Films / Gnosticism / Postmodernism / Spirituality /

Genre > Monographs

The Melancholy Android: On the Psychology of Sacred Machines

Literature / Film and Media / Technology / Androids / Robots / Artificial Intelligence / Melancholy / Machines /