Determined spirits : eugenics, heredity and racial regeneration in Anglo-American spiritualist writing, 1848-1930 /

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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....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ferguson, Christine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2012]
Colección:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Temas:
1800-1999
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.
Spiritualism > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Spiritualism > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Spiritualism > United States > History > 19th century.
Spiritualism > United States > History > 20th century.
Spiritisme > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Spiritisme > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Spiritisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Spiritisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Littérature et spiritisme > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature et spiritisme > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Littérature et spiritisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature et spiritisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature and spiritualism
Spiritualism
Literatur
Spiritismus
Eugenik
Rassentheorie
Spiritualism > Förenta staterna > historia.
Religion och litteratur.
Great Britain
United States
Großbritannien
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Radical determinism and the natural history of the medium
  • Spirits in mind: madness, idiocy and the cultural capital of ignorance
  • Eugenic summerlands: sexual reproduction and family engineering in the spheres
  • Blended souls: Paschal Beverly Randolph and occult miscegenation
  • Criminal man and recidivist spirit: spiritualism, criminal anthropology and thanato-rehabilitationism
  • Dead letters: bioaesthetics and the new realism in fin-de-siècle spiritualism.

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