Title The sympathetic medium : feminine channeling, the occult, and communication technologies, 1859-1919 / Jill Galvan

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 216 pages) : illustrations 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Channeling (Spiritualism) -- History -- 19th century. Communication in literature. Communication -- Technological innovations -- History -- 19th century. English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Mediums in literature. Spiritualism in literature. Women mediums -- History -- 19th century. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Form Electronic book LC no. 2009028973 ISBN 0801458625 (electronic bk.) 9780801458620 (electronic bk.)

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