|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910790235403321 |
|
|
Autore |
Ferguson Christine |
|
|
Titolo |
Determined spirits [[electronic resource] ] : eugenics, heredity and racial regeneration in Anglo-American spiritualist writing, 1848-1930 / / Christine Ferguson |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2012 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (241 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
133.9094109034 |
800 |
942.08 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Spiritualism - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Spiritualism - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
Spiritualism - United States - History - 19th century |
Spiritualism - United States - History - 20th century |
Literature and spiritualism - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Literature and spiritualism - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
Literature and spiritualism - United States - History - 19th century |
Literature and spiritualism - United States - History - 20th century |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Radical Determinism and the Natural History of the Medium; Chapter 2 Spirits in Mind: Madness, Idiocy and the Cultural Capital of Ignorance; Chapter 3 Eugenic Summerlands: Sexual Reproduction and Family Engineering in the Spheres; Chapter 4 Blended Souls: Paschal Beverly Randolph and Occult Miscegenation; Chapter 5 Criminal Man and Recidivist Spirit: Spiritualism, Criminal Anthropology and Thanato-Rehabilitationism |
Chapter 6 Dead Letters: Bioaesthetics and the New Realism in Fin-de-Siècle SpiritualismConclusion; Bibliography; Index |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Examines the Spiritualist movement's role in disseminating eugenic and hard hereditarian thought.Studying transatlantic spiritualist literature |
|
|
|
|