Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-357) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: New Thought in late-Victorian America -- The era of woman and the problem of desire -- The mother or the warrior: mind, matter, selfhood, and desire in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and Warren Felt Evans -- Emma Curtis Hopkins and the spread of New Thought, 1885-1905 -- Sex and desirelessness: the New Thought novels of Helen Van-Anderson, Ursula Gestefeld, and Alice Bunker Stockham -- Money and desire: Helen Wilmans and the reorientations of New Thought -- New thought and early progressivism -- New Thought and popular psychology, 1905-1920 -- Conclusion: New Thought in American culture after 1920.
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