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The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer /

In the 1860s, William Mumler photographed ghostsor so he claimed. The practice came to be known as spirit photography, and Mumler's insistence that his work brought back the dead led to a sensational trial in 1869 that was the talk of the nation. The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photo...

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Autor principal: Kaplan, Louis, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PROLOGUE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: GHOSTLY DEVELOPMENTS; MUMLER IN THE PRESS: THE BEGINNINGS (18621863); SPIRITUAL PHOTOGRAPHY (1866); The Personal Experiences of William H. Mumler In Spirit-Photography (1875); THE MUMLER "SPIRIT" PHOTOGRAPH CASE (1869); MUMLER IN THE PRESS: THE TRIAL (1869); CONCLUSION. SPOOKED THEORIES: DECONSTRUCTION, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND THE SPECTERS OF MUMLER; NOTES; INDEX.