Ghosts of futures past: spiritualism and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century America
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Main Author: McGarry, Molly (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press 2008
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Item Description:"Simpson, imprint in humanities"--P. facing t.p
More than an occult parlour game, 19th century American Spiritualism was a new religion, which channeled the voices of the dead, linked present with past, and conjured new worldly and otherworldly futures. Tracing the persistence of magic in an emergent culture of secularism, McGarry looks at this part of American cultural history
Includes bibliographical references and index
Mourning, media, and the cultural politics of conjuring the dead -- Indian guides : haunted subjects and the politics of vanishing -- Spectral sexualities : free love, moral panic, and the making of U.S. obscenity law -- Mediomania : the spirit of science in a culture of belief and doubt -- Secular subjects : a queer genealogy of untimely sexualities
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 269 p.)
ISBN:0520934067
1282359304
9780520934061
9781282359307

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