The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult
"Critical attention to the Victorian supernatural has flourished over the last twenty-five years. Whether it is spiritualism or Theosophy, mesmerism or the occult, the dozens of book-length studies and hundreds of articles that have appeared recently reflect the avid scholarly discussion of Vic...
| Други автори: | Kontou, Tatiana., Willburn, Sarah A., 1969- |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Farnham :
Ashgate Pub.,
2012.
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| Серия: |
Ashgate research companion.
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Print version::
Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction; Part 1: Haunted Laboratories and Ghosts in the Machine: Spiritualism, Science and Technology: 1 Recent Scholarship on Spiritualism and Science; 2 The Sciences of Spiritualism in Victorian Britain: Possibilities and Problems; 3 The Undead Author: Spiritualism, Technology and Authorship; 5 The Cross-Correspondences, the Nature of Evidence and the Matter of Writing; Part 2: Occulture: Sex, Politics, Philosophy and Poetics
- Part 2: Occulture: Sex, Politics, Philosophy and Poetics: 6 The Evolution of Occult Spirituality in Victorian England and the Representative Case; 7 'Out of your clinging kisses ... I create a new world': Sexuality and Spirituality; 8 Socialism and Occultism at the Fin de Siecle: Elective Affinities; 9 William James: Belief in Ghosts; 10 The Turn of the Gyres: Alterity in 'The Gift of Harun Al-Rashid' and A Thousand and One Nights
- Part 3: Staging the Victorian Afterlife: From Magic Shows to Dinner Parties: 11 The Case of Florence Marryat: Custodian of the Spirit World/Popular Novelist; 12 'Gentleman Mountebanks' and Spiritualists: Legal, Stage and Media Contest Between Magicians; 13 Mirth as Medium: Spectacles of Laughter in the Victorian Seance Room; 14 'Eating, Feeding, and Flesh: Food in Victorian Spiritualism'; 15 'The Dear Old Sacred Terror': Spiritualism and the Supernatural from The Bostonians to; 16 'The Sublimation of Matter into Spirit': Anna Mary Howitt's Automatic Drawings; 17 Viewing History and Fantasy through Victorian Spirit Photography
- Bibliography
- Index.