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Literature, technology, and magical thinking, 1880-1920 / / Pamela Thurschwell [[electronic resource]]



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Autore: Thurschwell Pamela <1966-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Literature, technology, and magical thinking, 1880-1920 / / Pamela Thurschwell [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 194 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 820.9/37
Soggetto topico: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Magic in literature
Literature and technology - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Literature and technology - Great Britain - History - 20th century
English literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Psychoanalysis and literature
Homosexuality and literature
Spiritualism in literature
Occultism in literature
Telepathy in literature
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-190) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The Society for Psychical Research's experiments in intimacy; CHAPTER 2 Wilde, hypnotic aesthetes and the 1890's; CHAPTER 3 Henry James's lives during wartime; CHAPTER 4 On the typewriter, In the Cage, at the Ouija board; CHAPTER 5 Freud, Ferenczi and psychoanalysis's telepathic transferences; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: In this 2001 book Pamela Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siècle. Thurschwell argues that technologies began suffusing the public imagination from the mid-nineteenth century on: they seemed to support the claims of spiritualist mediums. Talking to the dead and talking on the phone both held out the promise of previously unimaginable contact between people: both seemed to involve 'magical thinking'. Thurschwell looks at the ways in which psychical research, the scientific study of the occult, is reflected in the writings of such authors as Henry James, George du Maurier and Oscar Wilde, and in the foundations of psychoanalysis. This study offers provocative interpretations of fin-de-siècle literary and scientific culture in relation to psychoanalysis, queer theory and cultural history.
Altri titoli varianti: Literature, Technology & Magical Thinking, 1880-1920
Titolo autorizzato: Literature, technology, and magical thinking, 1880-1920  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-107-12280-5
1-280-15936-7
0-511-11937-2
0-511-04146-2
0-511-15297-3
0-511-32773-0
0-511-48453-4
0-511-04765-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910783044303321
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Serie: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; ; 32.