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Second Sight in the Nineteenth Century: Prophecy, Imagination and Nationhood: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

Autor Elsa Richardson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 iun 2017
This book explores the phenomenon of second sight in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Second sight is a form of prophetic vision associated with the folklore of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Described in Gaelic as the An-da-shealladh or ‘the two sights’, those in possession of this extraordinary power are said to foresee future events like the death of neighbour, the arrival of strangers into the community, the success or failure of a fishing trip. From the late seventeenth century onwards, rumours of this strange faculty attracted the attention of numerous scientists, travel writers, antiquarians, poets and artists. Focusing on the nineteenth century, this book examines second sight in relation to mesmerism and phrenology, modern spiritualism and anthropology, romance literature and folklorism and finally, psychical research and Celtic mysticism. Tracing the migration of a supposedly ‘Scottish’ tradition through various sites of nineteenth-century popular culture, it explores questions of nationhood and identity alongside those posed by supernatural phenomena.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137519696
ISBN-10: 113751969X
Pagini: 270
Ilustrații: VII, 260 p. 1 illus.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2017
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction.- Chapter One: Second Sight and the Creation of the Highlands.- Chapter Two: Mesmerism, Phrenology and Supernatural History.- Chapter Three: Primitive Spiritualism and Origin Stories.- Chapter Four: Psychical Research, Folklore and Romance.- Chapter Five: Research in the Field: Ada Goodrich Freer and Fiona Macleod.- Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index.

Recenzii

“Second Sight in the Nineteenth Century: Prophecy, Imagination and Nationhood is its interdisciplinarity. Richardson convincingly draws readers through the entanglements of positivist scientific discourse, literary aesthetic production, and nationalist rhetoric to argue that each participated in a larger project: the colonization of the Scottish imagination.” (Jayda Coons, The Wilkie Collins Journal, wilkiecollinssociety.org, April 25, 2019)

Notă biografică

Elsa Richardson is Lecturer of History at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, where she is affiliated with the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare and the Scottish Centre for Victorian and Neo-Victorian Studies. She researches and publishes on the historical interactions between medicine and the imagination, science and the supernatural, psychology and the occult.

Caracteristici

Explores the under-studied tradition of second sight, prominent in nineteenth-century popular culture but largely ignored by the modern scholarship Throws light on ever-changing boundaries between magic, epistemology, and science Examines questions of nationhood and identity alongside those posed by supernatural phenomena