The sympathetic medium : feminine channeling, the occult, and communication technologies, 1859-1919 / / Jill Galvan

• Autore: Galvan Jill Nicole <1971->
• Pubblicazione: Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 133.9/1082
• Soggetto topico: Channeling (Spiritualism) - History - 19th century; Women mediums - History - 19th century; Communication - Technological innovations - History - 19th century; Spiritualism in literature; Mediums in literature; Communication in literature; American literature - 19th century - History and criticism; English literature - 19th century - History and criticism
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Tuning in to the female medium -- Sympathy and the spiriting of information In the cage -- Securing the line : automatism and cross-cultural encounters in late Victorian Gothic fiction -- Du Maurier's media : the phonographic unconscious on the cusp of the future -- Telltale typing, hysterical channeling : the medium as detective device -- Literary transmission and male mediation.
• Sommario/riassunto: Galvan offers a richly nuanced and culturally grounded analysis of the rise of the female medium in Great Britain and the United States during the Victorian era and through the turn of the century through the work of George Eliot, Bram Stoker, and others.
• Titolo autorizzato: The sympathetic medium
• ISBN: 0-8014-5862-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811589603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II