Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 269 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
A Simpson book in the humanities |
Contents |
Mourning, media, and the cultural politics of conjuring the dead -- Indian guides : haunted subjects and the politics of vanishing -- Spectral sexualities : free love, moral panic, and the making of U.S. obscenity law -- Mediomania : the spirit of science in a culture of belief and doubt -- Secular subjects : a queer genealogy of untimely sexualities |
Summary |
More than an occult parlour game, 19th century American Spiritualism was a new religion, which channeled the voices of the dead, linked present with past, and conjured new worldly and otherworldly futures. Tracing the persistence of magic in an emergent culture of secularism, McGarry looks at this part of American cultural history |
Notes |
"Simpson, imprint in humanities"--Preliminary page |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Spiritualism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Religion and culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spiritualism.
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HISTORY -- United States -- General.
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Religion
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Religion and culture
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Spiritualism
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SUBJECT |
United States -- Religion -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140500
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Subject |
United States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2007037340 |
ISBN |
9780520934061 |
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0520934067 |
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9780520252608 |
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0520252608 |
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9786612359309 |
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6612359307 |
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