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Author:

Lehman, Amy.

Title:

Victorian women and the theatre of trance : mediums, spiritualists and mesmerists in performance / Amy Lehman.

Publisher:

McFarland & Co.,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

ix, 202 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Women and spiritualism--United States--History--19th century.
Women mediums--United States--History--19th century.
Mesmerism--United States--History--19th century.
Theater--United States--History--19th century.
Women and spiritualism--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Women mediums--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Mesmerism--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Theater--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Victorian theatre and theatricality in Victorian culture -- The Victorian woman as actress and the roles she played -- Mesmer and Charcot : the trance performance as medical show -- The performances of Elizabeth O'Key : the medical theatre of mesmerism -- "Double consciousness" in acting theory and trance state -- "Call me Gypsy" : Anna Cora Mowatt's trance performances -- The rise of spiritualism and the Fox sisters -- Séance as theatre -- Spirit travels to distant times and places -- Cora L.V. Richmond : spiritualist trance star -- The performance of "Ouina" and the racial "other" -- Spiritualism crosses over to England : Florence Cook and the materialization séance -- "Katie King" and Robert Dale Owen -- Materialization, ectoplasm and realism.

ISBN:

0786434791 (softcover : alk. paper)
9780786434794 (softcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)424454763

LCCN:

2009026561

Locations:

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