E-Book, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Lowry Invisible Hosts
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6601-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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Performing the Nineteenth-Century Spirit Medium's Autobiography
E-Book, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6601-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Provides a rhetorical analysis of female spirit medium's autobiographies in the historical and social contexts of Victorian era America.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Something in a Stranger's Experience: Evangelical and Spiritualist Women's Autobiography
2. Intoxicating Notoriety: Why Mediums Couldn't Quite Be "True" Women
3. The Great Master Medium: Spiritualism, Casuistry, and Christian Discourse
4. Home Sweet Home: Constructions of Domesticity, Embodiment, and the Public Sphere
5. Pure Intentions and Filthy Lucre: Relationality and the Rhetorical Implications of Endorsement and Patronage
6. Deep Trance: Corporeality, Dualism, and Submission
7. Indecorous Indecorum: Prophetic Women, Travel Writing, and the Politics of Virtue
Conclusion: Autobiographical Ends
Notes
Bibliography
Index