Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-422) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Sarah Wilburn. Viewing history and fantasy through Victorian spirit photography / Recent scholarship on spiritualism and science / Christine Ferguson -- Sciences of spiritualism in Victorian Britain : possibilities and problems / Richard Noakes -- Undead author : spiritualism, technology and authorship / Anthony Enns -- Victorian post human : transmission, information and the séance / Jill Galvan -- Cross correspondences, the nature of evidence and the matter of writing / Leigh Wilson -- Occulture : sex, politics, philosophy and poetics. Evolution of occult spirituality in Victorian England and the representative case of Edward Bulwer-Lytton / J. Jeffrey Franklin -- 'Out of your clinging kisses, I create a new world' : sexuality and spirituality in the work of Edward Carpenter / Joy Dixon -- Socialism and occultism at the Fin de Siècle : elective affinities / Matthew Beaumont -- William James : belief in ghosts / Christoforos Diakoulakis -- Turn of the Gyres : alterity in 'the gift of Harun Al-Rashid' and A thousand and one nights / Mazen Naous -- Staging the Victorian afterlife : from magic shows to dinner parties. Case of Florence Marryat : custodian of the spirit world/popular novelist / Tatiana Kontou -- 'Gentleman Mounterbanks' and spiritualists : legal, stage and media contest between magicians amd spirit mediums in the United States and England / Erika White Dyson -- Mirth as medium : spectacles of laughter in the Victorian séance room / Mackenzie Tromp -- 'The dear old sacred terror' : spiritualism and the supernatural from the The Bostonians to The turn of the screw / Bridget Bennett -- 'The sublimation of matter into spirit' : Anna Mary Howitt's automatic drawings / Rachel Oberter -- Viewing history and fantasy through Victorian spirit photography / Sarah Wilburn.
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