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UNINA9910788582903321 |
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Colbert Charles <1946-> |
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Haunted visions [[electronic resource] ] : spiritualism and American art / / Charles Colbert |
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011 |
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1-283-89791-1 |
0-8122-0499-9 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 319 pages) : illustrations |
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The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America |
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Art, American - 19th century |
Spiritualism - United States - History |
Spiritualism in art |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-314) and index. |
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The History and Teachings of Spiritualism -- Who Speaks for the Dead? -- Reenchanting America -- Revelations by Daylight -- Ghostly Gloamings -- Land of Promise -- Romantic Conjurations -- The Critic as Psychic -- Lessons in Clairvoyance. |
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Spiritualism emerged in western New York in 1848 and soon achieved a wide following due to its claim that the living could commune with the dead. In Haunted Visions: Spiritualism and American Art, Charles Colbert focuses on the ways Spiritualism imbued the making and viewing of art with religious meaning and, in doing so, draws fascinating connections between art and faith in the Victorian age.Examining the work of such well-known American artists as James Abbott McNeill Whistler, William Sydney Mount, and Robert Henri, Colbert demonstrates that Spiritualism played a critical role in the evolution of modern attitudes toward creativity. He argues that Spiritualism made a singular contribution to the sanctification of art that occurred in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The faith maintained that spiritual energies could reside in objects, and thus works of art could be appreciated not only for what they illustrated but also as vessels of the psychic vibrations their creators impressed into them. Such beliefs sanctified both the making and collecting of art in |
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an era when Darwinism and Positivism were increasingly disenchanting the world and the efforts to represent it. In this context, Spiritualism endowed the artist's profession with the prestige of a religious calling; in doing so, it sought not to replace religion with art, but to make art a site where religion happened. |
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UNINA9910780112103321 |
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Clayton Jay <1951-> |
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Charles Dickens in cyberspace : the afterlife of the nineteenth century in postmodern culture / / Jay Clayton |
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New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2003 |
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©2003 |
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0-19-772337-3 |
1-280-50317-3 |
0-19-534773-0 |
1-60256-950-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (281 p.) |
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English literature - 19th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
Criticism - United States - History - 20th century |
English literature - Appreciation - United States |
United States Civilization British influences |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Introduction: Dickens Browses the World Wide Web; One: The Past in the Future of Cultural Studies Crystal Palace to Millennium Dome; Two: The Voice in the Machine Hazlitt, Austen, Hardy, and James; Three: Undisciplined Cultures Peacock, Mary Somerville, and Mr. Pickwick; Four: Hacking the Nineteenth Century Babbage and Lovelace in The Difference Engine and Arcadia; Five: Concealed Circuits Frankenstein's Monster, Replicants, and Cyborgs; Six: Is Pip Postmodern? Or, Dickens at the Turn of the Millennium; Seven: Genome Time New Age Evolution, The Gold Bug Variations, and Gattaca |
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Eight: Convergence of the Two Cultures A Geek's Guide Notes; Works Cited; Index |
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Charles Dickens in Cyberspace' surveys novelists, scientists, filmmakers, and theorists over two centuries, tracing circuits that connect Austen, Babbage, Darwin, Dickens, and Mary Shelley with their contemporary counterparts: Andrea Barrett, Peter Carey, Richard Powers, Salman Rushdie, Ridley Scott, Neal Stephenson, Tom Stoppard, and others. |
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