Research Catalog

Title

The sympathetic medium [electronic resource] : feminine channeling, the occult, and communication technologies, 1859-1919 / Jill Galvan.

Author

Galvan, Jill Nicole, 1971-

Publication

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.

Details

Description

1 online resource (viii, 216 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Sympathetic medium (Online)

Alternative Title

Sympathetic medium (Online)

Subject

• Channeling (Spiritualism) > History > 19th century
• Women mediums > History > 19th century
• Communication > Technological innovations > History > 19th century
• Spiritualism in literature
• Mediums in literature
• Communication in literature
• American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• English literature > 19th century > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

LCCN

2009028973

OCLC

ssj0000487795

Author

Galvan, Jill Nicole, 1971-

Title

The sympathetic medium [electronic resource] : feminine channeling, the occult, and communication technologies, 1859-1919 / Jill Galvan.

Imprint

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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