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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.