Altered States : Sex, Nation, Drugs, and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism
Marlene Tromp
Altered States examines the rise of Spiritualism--the religion of séances, mediums, and ghostly encounters--in the Victorian period and the role it played in undermining both traditional female roles and the rhetoric of imperialism. Focusing on a particular kind of séance event--the full-form materialization--and the bodies of the young, female mediums who performed it, Marlene Tromp argues that in the altered state of the séance new ways of understanding identity and relationships became possible. This not only demonstrably shaped the thinking of the Spiritualists, but also the popular consciousness of the period. In diaries, letters, newspaper accounts, scientific reports, and popular fiction, Tromp uncovers evidence that the radical views presented in the faith permeated and influenced mainstream Victorian thought.
سال:
2006
اشاعت:
1
ناشر کتب:
State University of New York Press
زبان:
english
صفحات:
262
ISBN 10:
079148193X
ISBN 13:
9780791481936
سیریز:
SUNY Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Ser.
فائل:
PDF, 3.53 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2006