Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (252 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780230604865Subject(s): American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Literature and spiritualism -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Occultism in literature | Spiritualism -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Spiritualism in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureDDC classification: 810.9384 LOC classification: E16-E18.85PN1-PN6790Online resources: Click to ViewCover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Apparitional Past -- Chapter 1 Crossing Over: The Spiritualist Atlantic -- Chapter 2 Revolutionary Spirits: The Persistence of the Occult -- Chapter 3 Sacred Theatres: The Spiritist Performances of Shakerism in the 1830s and 1840s -- Chapter 4 Spirited Away: The Death of Little Eva and the Farewell Performances of Katie King -- Chapter 5 "There Is No Death": Spiritualism and the Civil War -- Conclusion: The Afterlife of Spiritualism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
This book asks about the cultural and political meanings of spiritualism in the Nineteenth century United States. In order to re-assess both transatlantic spiritualism and the culture in which it emerged, Bennet locates spiritualism within a highly technologized transatlantic capitalist culture.
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