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- English
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Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
About this book
This book asks about the cultural and political meanings of spiritualism in the Nineteenth century United States. In order to re-assess both transatlantic spiritualism and the culture in which it emerged, Bennet locates spiritualism within a highly technologized transatlantic capitalist culture.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Apparitional Past
- Chapter 1 Crossing Over: The Spiritualist Atlantic
- Chapter 2 Revolutionary Spirits: The Persistence of the Occult
- Chapter 3 Sacred Theatres: The Spiritist Performances of Shakerism in the 1830s and 1840s
- Chapter 4 Spirited Away: The Death of Little Eva and the Farewell Performances of Katie King
- Chapter 5 “There Is No Death”: Spiritualism and the Civil War
- Conclusion: The Afterlife of Spiritualism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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