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Altered states : sex, nation, drugs, and self-transformation in Victorian spiritualism

Title: Altered states : sex, nation, drugs, and self-transformation in Victorian spiritualism / Marlene Tromp.
Author: Tromp, Marlene, 1966-
Publication: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006.

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Description

xii, 233 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm.

Series Statement

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century

Uniform Title

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-223) and index.

Contents

Spirited sexuality : sex, marriage, and Victorian spiritualism -- Wedding stories/ghost stories -- Ghostly erotics and the imperialism in the Victorian drawing room -- Economics, race, and the specter of class -- Drunk with power : stories of ghostly others -- Under the influence : the fox sisters and pernicious spirits -- Haunted : Elizabeth d'Espérance, social justice, and the evolution of mediumship.

ISBN

0791467392
9780791467398
0791467406
9780791467404

LCCN

2005016024
9780791467398

OCLC

ocm60668992
60668992
SCSB-1397772

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library