The Sympathetic Medium : Feminine Channeling, the Occult, and Communication Technologies, 1859-1919 /

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"The nineteenth century saw not only the emergence of the telegraph, the telephone, and the typewriter but also a fascination with seances and occult practices like automatic writing as a means for contacting the dead. Like the new technologies, modern spiritualism promised to link people separ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Galvan, Jill Nicole, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Kommunikationstechnik.
Telefonie.
Vrouwen.
Occultisme.
Frau
Parapsychologie
Medium
Kommunikative Kompetenz
Women mediums.
Spiritualism in literature.
Mediums in literature.
English literature.
Communication > Technological innovations.
Communication in literature.
Channeling (Spiritualism)
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Communication dans la litterature.
Mediums dans la litterature.
Spiritisme dans la litterature.
Femmes mediums > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Mediumnite > Histoire > 19e siecle.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Communication > Technological innovations > History > 19th century.
Women mediums > History > 19th century.
Channeling (Spiritualism) > History > 19th century.
USA.
Grossbritannien
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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