Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult
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Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult
Willburn, Sarah; Kontou, Tatiana
Taylor & Francis Ltd
07/2012
456
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Inglês
9780754669128
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Contents: Foreword; Introduction, Tatiana Kontou and Sarah Willburn; Part 1 Haunted Laboratories and Ghosts in the Machine: Spiritualism, Science and Technology: Recent scholarship on spiritualism and science, Christine Ferguson; The sciences of spiritualism in Victorian Britain: possibilities and problems, Richard Noakes; The undead author: spiritualism, technology and authorship, Anthony Enns; The Victorian post-human: transmission, information and the seance, Jill Galvan; The cross-correspondences, the nature of evidence and the matter of writing, Leigh Wilson. Part 2 Occulture: Sex, Politics, Philosophy and Poetics: The evolution of occult spirituality in Victorian England and the representative case of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, J. Jeffrey Franklin; 'Out of your clinging kisses...I create a new world': sexuality and, spirituality in the work of Edward Carpenter, Joy Dixon; Socialism and occultism at the fin de siecle: elective affinities, Matthew Beaumont; William James: belief in ghosts, Christoforos Diakoulakis; The turn of the gyres: alterity in The Gift of Haroun Al-Rashid and A Thousand and One Nights, Mazen Naous. Part 3 Staging the Victorian Afterlife: from Magic Shows to Dinner Parties: The case of Florence Marryat: custodian of the Spirit World/popular novelist, Tatiana Kontou; 'Gentleman mountebanks' and spiritualists: legal, stage and media contests between magicians and spirit mediums in the United States and England, Erika White Dyson; Mirth as medium: spectacles of laughter in the Victorian seance room, Mackenzie Bartlett; 'Eating, feeding, and flesh: food in Victorian Spiritualism, Marlene Tromp; 'The dear old sacred terror': spiritualism and the supernatural from The Bostonians to The Turn of the Screw, Bridget Bennett; 'The sublimation of matter into spirit': Anna Mary Howitt's automatic drawings, Rachel Oberter; Viewing history and fantasy through Victorian spirit photography, Sarah Willburn; Bibliography; Index.
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psychical;roger;luckhurst;victorian;photography;janet;oppenheim;daniel;dunglas;home;Young Man;Gogh;Vincent Van Gogh;Elana Gomel;Gauguin;Paul Gauguin;Iwan Rhys Morus;Nineteenth Century Spiritualism;Pamela Thurschwell;Psychical Research;Qusta Ibn Luqa;Tatiana Kontou;Durham University Journal;Spirit Photography;Daniel Dunglas Home;Spirit Photographs;Spirit Drawings;Mrs Piper;Mid Air;Nicolas De Condorcet;Christian Rosenkreutz;Houghton's Collection;Magnalia Christi Americana;Spiritual Mediums;Victorian Afterlife
Contents: Foreword; Introduction, Tatiana Kontou and Sarah Willburn; Part 1 Haunted Laboratories and Ghosts in the Machine: Spiritualism, Science and Technology: Recent scholarship on spiritualism and science, Christine Ferguson; The sciences of spiritualism in Victorian Britain: possibilities and problems, Richard Noakes; The undead author: spiritualism, technology and authorship, Anthony Enns; The Victorian post-human: transmission, information and the seance, Jill Galvan; The cross-correspondences, the nature of evidence and the matter of writing, Leigh Wilson. Part 2 Occulture: Sex, Politics, Philosophy and Poetics: The evolution of occult spirituality in Victorian England and the representative case of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, J. Jeffrey Franklin; 'Out of your clinging kisses...I create a new world': sexuality and, spirituality in the work of Edward Carpenter, Joy Dixon; Socialism and occultism at the fin de siecle: elective affinities, Matthew Beaumont; William James: belief in ghosts, Christoforos Diakoulakis; The turn of the gyres: alterity in The Gift of Haroun Al-Rashid and A Thousand and One Nights, Mazen Naous. Part 3 Staging the Victorian Afterlife: from Magic Shows to Dinner Parties: The case of Florence Marryat: custodian of the Spirit World/popular novelist, Tatiana Kontou; 'Gentleman mountebanks' and spiritualists: legal, stage and media contests between magicians and spirit mediums in the United States and England, Erika White Dyson; Mirth as medium: spectacles of laughter in the Victorian seance room, Mackenzie Bartlett; 'Eating, feeding, and flesh: food in Victorian Spiritualism, Marlene Tromp; 'The dear old sacred terror': spiritualism and the supernatural from The Bostonians to The Turn of the Screw, Bridget Bennett; 'The sublimation of matter into spirit': Anna Mary Howitt's automatic drawings, Rachel Oberter; Viewing history and fantasy through Victorian spirit photography, Sarah Willburn; Bibliography; Index.
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psychical;roger;luckhurst;victorian;photography;janet;oppenheim;daniel;dunglas;home;Young Man;Gogh;Vincent Van Gogh;Elana Gomel;Gauguin;Paul Gauguin;Iwan Rhys Morus;Nineteenth Century Spiritualism;Pamela Thurschwell;Psychical Research;Qusta Ibn Luqa;Tatiana Kontou;Durham University Journal;Spirit Photography;Daniel Dunglas Home;Spirit Photographs;Spirit Drawings;Mrs Piper;Mid Air;Nicolas De Condorcet;Christian Rosenkreutz;Houghton's Collection;Magnalia Christi Americana;Spiritual Mediums;Victorian Afterlife
