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).

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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.

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"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

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