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Author:

Galvan, Jill Nicole, 1971-

Title:

The sympathetic medium : feminine channeling, the occult, and communication technologies, 1859-1919 / Jill Galvan.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

viii, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Channeling (Spiritualism)--History--19th century.
Women mediums--History--19th century.
Communication--History--History--19th century.
Spiritualism in literature
Mediums in literature.
Communication in literature
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Tuning in to the female medium -- Sympathy and the spiriting of information In the cage -- Securing the line : automatism and cross-cultural encounters in late Victorian Gothic fiction -- Du Maurier's media : the phonographic unconscious on the cusp of the future -- Telltale typing, hysterical channeling : the medium as detective device -- Literary transmission and male mediation.

ISBN:

0801448018 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801448010 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)426390916

LCCN:

2009028973

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)