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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965401503321

Autore

Bennett Bridget

Titolo

Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature / / by B. Bennett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007

ISBN

9786611363482

9781281363480

1281363480

9780230604865

0230604862

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Disciplina

810.9384

810/.9384

Soggetti

America - History

Literature

America - Literatures

Literature, Modern - 19th century

Religion

History, Modern

History of the Americas

North American Literature

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Modern History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

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; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Apparitional Past; Chapter 1 Crossing Over: The Spiritualist Atlantic; Chapter 2 Revolutionary Spirits: The Persistence of the Occult; Chapter 3 Sacred Theatres: The Spiritist Performances of Shakerism in the 1830's and 1840's; Chapter 4 Spirited Away: The Death of Little Eva and the Farewell Performances of Katie King; Chapter 5 "There Is No Death": Spiritualism and the Civil War; Conclusion: The Afterlife of Spiritualism;



Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book asks about the cultural and political meanings of spiritualism in the Nineteenth century United States. In order to re-assess both transatlantic spiritualism and the culture in which it emerged, Bennet locates spiritualism within a highly technologized transatlantic capitalist culture.