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Spectres of the self : thinking about ghosts and ghost-seeing in England, 1750-1920 /
"Spectres of the Self is a fascinating study of the rich cultures surrounding the experience of seeing ghosts in England from the Reformation to the twentieth century. Shane McCorristine examines a vast range of primary and secondary sources, showing how ghosts, apparitions, and hallucinations...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The dreams of the ghost-seers
- The haunted mind, 1750-1850
- Seeing is believing : hallucinations and ghost-seeing
- A science of the soul
- Ghost-hunting in the society for psychical research
- Phantasms of the living and the dead
- The concept of hallucination in late Victorian psychology
- Epilogue: towards 1920.