Determined spirits [[electronic resource] ] : eugenics, heredity and racial regeneration in Anglo-American spiritualist writing, 1848-1930 / / Christine Ferguson

• Autore: Ferguson Christine
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 133.9094109034; 800; 942.08
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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 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, concep
• Titolo autorizzato: Determined spirits
• ISBN: 0-7486-5066-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790235403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.