1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001015699707536

Titolo

Samo : storia, letteratura, scienza : atti delle giornate di studio : Ravenna, 14-16 novembre 2002 / a cura di Eleonora Cavallini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pisa ; Roma : Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali, 2004

ISBN

8881472392

8881473275

Descrizione fisica

398 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

A.I.O.N. : Annali dell'Istituto universitario orientale di Napoli. Quaderni [Istituti editoriali e poligrafici internazionali] ; 8

Altri autori (Persone)

Cavallini, Eleonora

Disciplina

939.14

Soggetti

Samo <isola> Storia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Non definito

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969295103321

Autore

McGarry Molly

Titolo

Ghosts of futures past : spiritualism and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century America / / Molly McGarry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008

ISBN

9786612359309

9781282359307

1282359304

9780520934061

0520934067

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Disciplina

133.90973/09034

Soggetti

Spiritualism - United States - History - 19th century

Religion and culture - United States - History - 19th century

United States Religion 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Simpson, imprint in humanities"--P. facing t.p.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Ghosts of Futures Past guides readers through the uncanny world of nineteenth-century American spiritualism. More than an occult parlor game, this 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, Molly McGarry brings a once marginalized practice to the center of American cultural history. Spiritualism provided an alchemical combination of science and magic that called into question the very categories of male and female, material and immaterial, self and other, living and dead. Dissolving the boundaries between them opened Spiritualist practitioners to other voices and, in turn, allowed them to



imagine new social worlds and forge diverse political affinities.