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The sympathetic medium : feminine channeling, the occult, and communication technologies, 1859-1919
- Title
- The sympathetic medium : feminine channeling, the occult, and communication technologies, 1859-1919 / Jill Galvan.
- Author
- Galvan, Jill Nicole, 1971-
- Publication
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 216 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Mediums in literature
- Communication > Technological innovations > History > 19th century
- Channeling (Spiritualism) > History > 19th century
- Women mediums > History > 19th century
- American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Spiritualism in literature
- English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Communication in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Tuning in to the female medium -- Sympathy and the spiriting of information In the cage -- Securing the line : automatism and cross-cultural encounters in late Victorian Gothic fiction -- Du Maurier's media : the phonographic unconscious on the cusp of the future -- Telltale typing, hysterical channeling : the medium as detective device -- Literary transmission and male mediation.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-2671
- ISBN
- 9780801448010 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801448018 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009028973
- OCLC
- YBP 2009028973
- Author
- Galvan, Jill Nicole, 1971-
- Title
- The sympathetic medium : feminine channeling, the occult, and communication technologies, 1859-1919 / Jill Galvan.
- Imprint
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-2671