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Libra Esoterica

Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

by Bridget Bennett

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  • Language: English

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Why did so many Americans visit and write about seances? What are the connections between the "emergence" of spiritualism in 1848 and earlier kinds of supernatural phenomena? This book asks about the cultural and political meanings of spiritualism in the 19th century United States. In order to re-assess both transatlantic spiritualism and the culture in which it emerged, Bennett locates spiritualism within a highly technologized transatlantic capitalist culture. She argues that, though performances in which the dead speak through and to the living, white Americans' most profound anxieties about political and cultural dispossession, especially of Indians, are articulated. — -Jacket.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Occultism and esotericism and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Retained metadata contains “supernatural” in the description and “Occultism” in the subject metadata.

    • “supernatural”· in description
    • “Occultism”· in subject
  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    Controlled discovery queries from crossref, harvard, and openalex matched “spiritualism”. Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the title, “Spiritualism” in the description, “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

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    • “spiritualism”· via Harvard LibraryCloud
    • “spiritualism”· via OpenAlex
    • “Spiritualism”· in title
    • “Spiritualism”· in description
    • “Spiritualism”· in subject

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x, 247 p. ; 22 cm.

2007Palgrave Macmillan; Palgrave Macmillan US; Palgrave Macmillan US eBooksEnglish
  • 9780230604865
  • 9781349538041
  • 9781403978004
  • 140397800X
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