Possession Allusions & Cultural References

Literary and Philosophical References

• Thomas Carlyle (1.2)
• George Eliot (1.2)
• Giambattista Vico, Principj di Scienza Nuova (1.2)
• Edward Gibbon (1.6)
• The Venerable Bede (1.6)
• Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species (1.9)
• John Bunyan (1.19)
• Christina Rossetti (1.21)
• Robert Graves (2.7)
• Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy (2.16)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (2.16)
• Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (2.16)
• Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology (2.16)
• Émile Zola (2.16)
• Andrew Marvell (2.18)
• Honoré de Balzac (3.1)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (3.1)
• Augustine of Hippo (3.4)
• John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress (3.4)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "On Donne's Poetry"(3.4-5)
• John Donne (3.4)
• William Wordsworth (3.7)
• Thomas de Quincy (3.7)
• Charles Lamb (3.7)
• Germaine de Staël (3.7)
• Friedrich Schiller (3.7)
• George Henry Lewes (3.7)
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson (3.7)
• Arthur Hugh Clough (3.7)
• William Shakespeare (3.8)
• Baruch Spinoza (3.8)
• Carl Linnaeus (3.8)
• Geoffrey Chaucer (3.8)
• Edmund Spenser (3.8)
• John Milton (3.8)
• Charlotte Brontë (3.10)
• Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (3.15)
• Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (3.15)
• René Descartes (3.16)
• Jane Welsh Carlyle (3.42)
• Dorothy Wordsworth (3.42)
• Roland Barthes (3.45)
• Michel Foucault (3.45)
• Honoré de Balzac, "Le Chef-d'oeuvre Inconnu"(3.46)
• François Rabelais (3.51)
• Virginia Woolf (3.51)
• John Ruskin (4.4)
• Algernon Charles Swinburne (4.4)
• George Herbert (4.6)
• William Rossetti (4.38)
• Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (4.63)
• Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur (4.65)
• The Brothers Grimm (4.123)
• Ludwig Tieck (4.123)
• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (4.123)
• Emily Dickinson (4.141)
• Sir Walter Raleigh (4.147)
• Simone Weil (4.164)
• William Butler Yeats (4.164)
• Arthur, Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott  (5.1-2)
• Mabel Peacock (5.113)
• Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (5.139)
• Sir Thomas Browne (5.188)
• Friedrich Schleiermacher (5.191)
• Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass (6.22)
• Elizabeth Gaskell (6.26)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (6.26)
• Ezra Pound (6.26)
• John Keats, "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer" (6.29)
• William Shakespeare, Hamlet (6.36)
• Petrarch (6.40)
• Charles Dickens (6.46)
• Sigmund Freud (6.47)
• The Poetic Edda (7.1)
• John Masefield (7.1)
• Walter de la Mare (7.1)
• George Meredith (7.1)
• Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova (7.6)
• Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs. Humphry Ward) (7.11)
• Humphry Ward (7.11)
• Jacques Lacan (8.55)
• Charlotte Mary Yonge (8.115)
• Angela Brazil (8.115)
• William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (8.138)
• Plato (10.3)
• Ludwig Feuerbach (10.3)
• John Stuart Mill (10.3)
• Jan Swammerdam (10.3)
• Galileo Galilei (10.3)
• Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (10.3)
• Pelagius (10.7)
• Plotinus (10.27)
• William Shakespeare, Macbeth (10.45)
• William Shakespeare, The Tempest (10.52)
• John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (10.56-57)
• William Shakespeare, King Lear (10.63)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (10.85)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Christabel" (10.97)
• William Wordsworth, The Prelude (10.209)
• Sir Thomas Wyatt (10.106)
• Jules Michelet (12.15)
• John Milton, Paradise Lost (12.17)
• Mary Wollstonecraft (12.41)
• Elizabeth Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers (13.2)
• George Sand (13.7)
• Willa Cather (13.7)
• Hélène Cixous (13.7)
• Luce Irigaray (13.7)
• Charlotte Brontë (13.7)
• Jean d'Arras (13.9)
• Edmund Gosse (13.16)
• Philip Gosse (13.16)
• Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (13.29)
• Henry James (13.47)
• Henry Vaughan, Silex Scintillans (13.79)
• Sir Walter Scott (14.7)
• William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (15.64-65)
• Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random (15.66)
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King (17.90)
• George Sand (19.26)
• Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (19.33)
• Aristotle (19.46)
• George Eliot, Silas Marner (19.52)
• Hans Christian Andersen, "The Little Mermaid"(19.329)
• Aeschylus (20.8)
• Anthony Trollope (20.42)
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (21.20)
• Henry James (21.20)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (23.12-13)
• George Eliot, Adam Bede (23.50)
• Charles Dickens, Bleak House (24.88)
• Edith Wharton (25.17)
• Jean Racine (25.23)
• William Shakespeare, As You Like It (27.56)
• Margery Allingham (27.58)
• Edgar Allan Poe (27.62)
• Margaret Fuller (27.62)
• John Milton, Samson Agonistes (28.118)
• John Keats, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" (Postscript: 26)

Figures from Myths, Fairy Tales, and Legends

• Proserpine (1.6)
• Ragnarök (2.2)
• Melusine (3.51)
• Rapunzel (4: Epigraph)
• Maid Marian (4.20)
• Merlin (4.65)
• The Princess and the Pea (4.167)
• Arachne (5.191)
• Mnemosyne (6.2)
• Medusa (6.2)
• Thoth (6.23)
• Fafnir (7.1)
• Guinevere (7.74)
• Pluto (7.86)
• The City of Is/Ys (8.27)
• Dahut (8.29)
• Gradlond (8.29)
• Ceres (8.55)
• The Maenads (8.55)
• Old King Cole (8.115)
• Psyche (10.17)
• Venus (10.17)
• Eros (10.21)
• Odin (10.22)
• Gangrader (10.22)
• Wafthrudnir (10.22)
• Baldur (10.22)
• Freya (10.90)
• Iduna (10.90)
• Artemis (10.129)
• Pandora (10.242)
• Snow White (12.171)
• Ases (13: Epigraph)
• Bör (13: Epigraph)
• Ymir (13: Epigraph)
• Honir (13: Epigraph)
• Loki (13: Epigraph)
• Oedipus (13.7)
• Ti'amat (13.11)
• Tiresias (13.11)
• Narcissus (13.30)
• Thor (13.46)
• The Hrimthurse (13.76)
• Scylla (16.10)
• The Hydra (16.10)
• The Sphinx (16.10)
• Raimondin (16.25)
• Lilith (19.14)
• Lug (19.35)
• Dagda (19.35)
• Taranis (19.35)
• Sir Lancelot (19.45)
• Elaine of Astolat (19.45)
• Baba Yaga (19.256)
• Morgan le Fay (19.321)
• Jack Frost (20.41)
• Hel (25.186)
• Hercules (26: Epigraph)
• Hermes (Postscript: 6)
• Maia (Postscript: 6)

Historical References

• Lord (Frederic) Leighton (1.6)
• Henry Crabb Robinson (1.12)
• Alexander Selkirk (1.19)
• Peter I of Portugal (1.19)
• Iñez de Castro (1.19)
• Walter Bagehot (1.20)
• J.M.W. Turner (1.10)
• Édouard Manet (2.16)
• George Frederic Watts (2.16)
• Leonardo da Vinci (2.17)
• Thomas Fairfax (2.18)
• Oliver Cromwell (2.18)
• Gottschalk of Orbais (3.4)
• Franz Mesmer (3.4)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (3.4)
• Martin Luther (3.4)
• Sarah Siddons (3.8)
• Dorothea Jordan (3.8)
• Mademoiselle Mars (3.8)
• Sir Humphry Davy (3.12)
• F.R. Leavis (3.15)
• Emily Tennyson (3.42)
• The Cumaean Sibyl (4.133)
• Julius Caesar (4.137)
• Saint Etheldreda (5.6)
• Abélard and Héloïse (5.198)
• Thomas Jefferson (6.25)
• Emanuel Swedenborg (6.25)
• Charles Wesley (6.25)
• Robert Owen (6.25)
• The Marquis de Lafayette (6.25)
• Benjamin Franklin (6.25)
• Julia Margaret Cameron (6.26)
• The Fox Sisters (6.27)
• Francis Bacon (6.27)
• Robert Dale Owen (6.27)
• Georges Cuvier (6.34)
• Jules Michelet (6.34)
• Joseph Ernest Renan (6.34)
• Sir John Everett Millais (6.43)
• Holman Hunt (6.43)
• Gabriele Rossetti (6.44)
• Angela Burdett-Coutts (6.46)
• King James I of England (10.60)
• Andrew Jackson Davis (10.68)
• Daniel Dunglas Home (10.68)
• Paracelsus (10.77)
• Napoleon Bonaparte (10.96)
• Melchisédech Thévenot (11.2)
• Antoinette de Bourignon (11.2)
• George Stephenson (12.18)
• Thomas Henry Huxley (12.22)
• St. Hilda (13.75)
• Isaac Greenbury (13.104)
• Johannes Vermeer (19.31)
• Ronald Reagan (20.5)
• Sophia Cottrell (20.31)
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton (20.42)
• Nassau William Senior (20.42)
• Paul Gauguin (23.41)
• Harriet Martineau (25.3)
• Hallam Tennyson (25.6)
• Rembrandt (25.23)
• Raphael (25.23)
• Machiavelli (26.32)
• Julius Caesar (28.117)
• Mark Antony (28.117)

Pop Culture References

• Dallas (5.113)
• Dynasty (5.113)
• The Beatles (5.113)