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Determined Spirits: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture

Autor Dr Christine Ferguson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 mar 2012
Examines the Spiritualist movement's role in disseminating eugenic and hard hereditarian thought
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780748639656
ISBN-10: 0748639659
Pagini: 230
Dimensiuni: 157 x 236 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Seria Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture


Notă biografică

Dr Christine Ferguson is currently a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siecle: The Brutal Tongue (Ashgate, 2006).

Cuprins

Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; Radical Determinism and the Natural History of the Medium; Spirits in Mind: Madness, Idiocy, and the Cultural Capital of Ignorance; Eugenic Summer Lands: 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: Bio-Aesthetics and the New Realism in Fin-de-Siecle Spiritualism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Recenzii

"Ferguson's work is a superb exposition of what Robert S. Cox referred to in his Body and Soul (2003) as the 'inherently polyvoal' nature of the Anglo-American movement."--Ahren Lerster, University of Southampton, British Journal of the History of Science