Determined Spirits
Autor Christine Fergusonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2026
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781399567268
ISBN-10: 1399567268
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Editura: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
ISBN-10: 1399567268
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Editura: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Notă biografică
Dr Christine Ferguson is currently a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siecle: The Brutal Tongue (Ashgate, 2006).
Cuprins
Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; Radical Determinism and the Natural History of the Medium; Spirits in Mind: Madness, Idiocy, and the Cultural Capital of Ignorance; Eugenic Summer Lands: Sexual Reproduction and Family Engineering in the Spheres; Blended Souls: Paschal Beverly Randolph and Occult Miscegenation; Criminal Man and Recidivist Spirit: Spiritualism, Criminal Anthropology, and Thanato-Rehabilitationism; Dead Letters: Bio-Aesthetics and the New Realism in Fin-de-Siecle Spiritualism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Recenzii
"Ferguson's work is a superb exposition of what Robert S. Cox referred to in his Body and Soul (2003) as the 'inherently polyvoal' nature of the Anglo-American movement."--Ahren Lerster, University of Southampton, British Journal of the History of Science