Author : Sarah A. Willburn
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 15,65 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780754655404
Drawing upon extensive archival work in the British Library, Sarah Willburn analyzes séance accounts, novels about mediumship, and metaphysical treatises to formulate a new conception of individualism that offers a fresh look at Victorian subjectivity. She presents the theories of compelling characters such as Newton Crosland and Lois Waisbrooker and provides exciting new readings of well-known texts by Charlotte Brontë, Eliot, Martineau, and Corelli.
Author : Georgiana Houghton
Publisher : Elibron Classics
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 32,45 MB
Release : 2001-10
Category :
ISBN : 1402194153
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by E. W. Allen, 1882, London
Author : Georgiana Houghton
Publisher :
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 22,23 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Spirit photography
ISBN :
Author : Shane McCorristine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1139788825
Spectres of the Self is a fascinating study of the rich cultures surrounding the experience of seeing ghosts in England from the Reformation to the twentieth century. Shane McCorristine examines a vast range of primary and secondary sources, showing how ghosts, apparitions, and hallucinations were imagined, experienced, and debated from the pages of fiction to the case reports of the Society for Psychical Research. By analysing a broad range of themes from telepathy and ghost-hunting to the notion of dreaming while awake and the question of why ghosts wore clothes, Dr McCorristine reveals the sheer variety of ideas of ghost seeing in English society and culture. He shows how the issue of ghosts remained dynamic despite the advance of science and secularism and argues that the ghost ultimately represented a spectre of the self, a symbol of the psychological hauntedness of modern experience.
Author : Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain)
Publisher :
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Parapsychology
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 1882
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Georgiana Houghton
Publisher : Victorian Secrets
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1906469261
Spanning the years 1870-1881, Evenings at Home in Spiritual Seance (Second Series ) documents the everyday, yet astonishing, experiences of spirit activity within the domestic space of the Victorian parlour. Through the intimacy of her diary-like prose, Houghton conjures cosy images of spirits laying the table for tea in what she called the "interblending of the heavenly and the mundane." She is equally comfortable communicating with her beloved pet dove as she is with the archangel Gabriel, living an unassuming yet spiritually rich life, filled with people of this world and the next. Houghton narrates her experiences of seances and trance mediumship with close friends, discusses her own automatic spirit drawings, and offers an autobiographical glimpse into her day-to-day business. This critical edition, edited by Sara Williams, includes: * Introduction * Author biography * Select bibliography * Explanatory footnotes * Appendices on 'Houghton in the Spiritualist press', 'Automatic spirit drawings' and 'Houghton's spirit photography'
Author : John Bovee Dods
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Electrophysiology
ISBN :
Author : Society for Psychical Research
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 1927
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Daniel Cottom
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 34,50 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 0195068572
A study from the American perspective of modern spiritualism, which flourished in the mid-19th century, and of surrealism, a movement that produced a major following between the two World Wars.
