Altered States

Sex, Nation, Drugs, and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism

AvMarlene Tromp

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

Del i serien SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

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Considers the role of Spiritualism in Victorian culture.Altered States examines the rise of Spiritualism-the religion of séances, mediums, and ghostly encounters-in the Victorian period and the role it played in undermining both traditional female roles and the rhetoric of imperialism. Focusing on a particular kind of séance event-the full-form materialization-and the bodies of the young, female mediums who performed it, Marlene Tromp argues that in the altered state of the séance new ways of understanding identity and relationships became possible. This not only demonstrably shaped the thinking of the Spiritualists, but also the popular consciousness of the period. In diaries, letters, newspaper accounts, scientific reports, and popular fiction, Tromp uncovers evidence that the radical views presented in the faith permeated and influenced mainstream Victorian thought.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-06-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Antal sidor:260
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791467404

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Marlene Tromp is Associate Professor of English at Denison University. She is the coeditor (with Pamela K. Gilbert and Aeron Haynie) of Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of The Private Rod: Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain.

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Introduction: Performing Readings Part I: Spirit Made Flesh 1. Spirited Sexuality: Sex, Marriage, and Victorian Spiritualism 2. Wedding Stories/Ghost Stories Part II: Ghosts of Home 3. Ghostly Erotics and Imperialism in the Victorian Drawing Room 4. Economics, Race, and the Specter of Class 5. Drunk with Power: Stories of Ghostly Others Part II: Transforming the Self 6. Under the Influence: The Fox Sisters and Pernicious Spirits 7. Haunted by Doubts: Elizabeth d'Espérance, Social Justice, and the Reconfiguration of Mediumship Notes Bibliography Index