03926nam 2200769Ia 450 991080629220332120230801223320.00-7486-5066-010.1515/9780748650668(CKB)2670000000203785(EBL)932470(OCoLC)795695202(SSID)ssj0000677238(PQKBManifestationID)11414767(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000677238(PQKBWorkID)10694290(PQKB)10780822(MiAaPQ)EBC932470(DE-B1597)616211(DE-B1597)9780748650668(OCoLC)1302162529(EXLCZ)99267000000020378520120606d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDetermined spirits eugenics, heredity and racial regeneration in Anglo-American spiritualist writing, 1848-1930 /Christine FergusonEdinburgh Edinburgh University Pressc20121 online resource (241 p.)Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian cultureDescription based upon print version of record.1-322-98050-0 0-7486-3965-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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-RehabilitationismChapter 6 Dead Letters: Bioaesthetics and the New Realism in Fin-de-Siècle SpiritualismConclusion; Bibliography; IndexExamines the Spiritualist movement's role in disseminating eugenic and hard hereditarian thought.Studying transatlantic spiritualist literature from the mid-19th to the early 20th century, Christine Ferguson focuses on its incorporation and dissemination of bio-determinist and eugenic thought. She asks why ideas about rational reproduction, hereditary determinism and race improvement became so important to spiritualist novelists, journalists and biographers in this period. She also examines how these concerns drove emerging Spiritualist understandings of disability, intelligence, crime, concepEdinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.SpiritualismGreat BritainHistory19th centurySpiritualismGreat BritainHistory20th centurySpiritualismUnited StatesHistory19th centurySpiritualismUnited StatesHistory20th centuryLiterature and spiritualismGreat BritainHistory19th centuryLiterature and spiritualismGreat BritainHistory20th centuryLiterature and spiritualismUnited StatesHistory19th centuryLiterature and spiritualismUnited StatesHistory20th centurySpiritualismHistorySpiritualismHistorySpiritualismHistorySpiritualismHistoryLiterature and spiritualismHistoryLiterature and spiritualismHistoryLiterature and spiritualismHistoryLiterature and spiritualismHistory133.9094109034800942.08Ferguson Christine1677918MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806292203321Determined spirits4045194UNINA