Ghosts of futures past : spiritualism and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century America

Ghosts of futures past : spiritualism and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century America / Molly McGarry.

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 p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McGarry, Molly
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2008.
Series:A Simpson book in the humanities
Subjects:
1800-1899
Spiritualism > United States > History > 19th century.
Religion and culture > United States > History > 19th century.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spiritualism.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Religion
Religion and culture
Spiritualism
United States > Religion > 19th century.
United States
History
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Table of 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.

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