Tromp Altered States

Sex, Nation, Drugs, and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8193-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Considers the role of Spiritualism in Victorian culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tromp, Marlene

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Performing Readings
Part I: Spirit Made Flesh
1. Spirited Sexuality: Sex, Marriage, and Victorian Spiritualism
2. Wedding Stories/Ghost Stories
Part II: Ghosts of Home
3. Ghostly Erotics and Imperialism in the Victorian Drawing Room
4. Economics, Race, and the Specter of Class
5. Drunk with Power: Stories of Ghostly Others
Part II: Transforming the Self
6. Under the Influence: The Fox Sisters and Pernicious Spirits
7. Haunted by Doubts: Elizabeth d'Espérance, Social Justice, and the Reconfiguration of Mediumship
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marlene Tromp is Associate Professor of English at Denison University. She is the coeditor (with Pamela K. Gilbert and Aeron Haynie) of Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of The Private Rod: Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain.