Altered states :: sex, nation, drugs, and self-transformation in Victorian spiritualism /

Altered States examines the rise of Spiritualism--the religion of séances, mediums, and ghostly encounters--in the Victorian period and the role it played in undermining both traditional female roles and the rhetoric of imperialism. Focusing on a particular kind of séance event--the full-form mate...

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1. Verfasser: Tromp, Marlene, 1966-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006.
Schriftenreihe:SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
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Zusammenfassung:Altered States examines the rise of Spiritualism--the religion of séances, mediums, and ghostly encounters--in the Victorian period and the role it played in undermining both traditional female roles and the rhetoric of imperialism. Focusing on a particular kind of séance event--the full-form materialization--and the bodies of the young, female mediums who performed it, Marlene Tromp argues that in the altered state of the séance new ways of understanding identity and relationships became possible. This not only demonstrably shaped the thinking of the Spiritualists, but also the popular consciousness of the period. In diaries, letters, newspaper accounts, scientific reports, and popular fiction, Tromp uncovers evidence that the radical views presented in the faith permeated and influenced mainstream Victorian thought.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 233 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and index.
ISBN:142941734X
9781429417341
9780791481936
079148193X
0791467392
9780791467398

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