03104nam 2200721Ia 450 991045093030332120200520144314.01-281-36348-097866113634820-230-60486-210.1057/9780230604865(CKB)1000000000342414(EBL)308347(OCoLC)314776126(SSID)ssj0000284952(PQKBManifestationID)11231292(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000284952(PQKBWorkID)10277608(PQKB)11208570(DE-He213)978-0-230-60486-5(MiAaPQ)EBC308347(Au-PeEL)EBL308347(CaPaEBR)ebr10194083(CaONFJC)MIL136348(OCoLC)560442851(EXLCZ)99100000000034241420070103d2007 uy 0engurnn|008mamaatxtccrTransatlantic spiritualism and nineteenth-century American literature[electronic resource] /Bridget Bennett1st ed.New York Palgrave Macmillan20071 online resource (258 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-53804-3 1-4039-7800-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexThis 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.Spiritualism in literatureAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismSpiritualismUnited StatesHistory19th centuryLiterature and spiritualismUnited StatesHistory19th centuryOccultism in literatureElectronic books.Spiritualism in literature.American literatureHistory and criticism.SpiritualismHistoryLiterature and spiritualismHistoryOccultism in literature.810.9384810/.9384Bennett Bridget800709MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450930303321Transatlantic spiritualism and nineteenth-century American literature2027616UNINA