Title Transatlantic spiritualism and nineteenth-century American literature / Bridget Bennett

Edition 1st ed Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 247 pages) Contents The Apparitional Past -- Crossing Over: The Spiritualist Atlantic -- Revolutionary Spirits: The Persistence of the Occult -- Sacred Theatres: The Spiritist Performances of Shakerism in the 1830s and 1840s -- Spirited Away: The Death of Little Eva and the Farewell Performances of Katie King -- "There Is No Death": Spiritualism and the Civil War -- The Afterlife of Spiritualism Summary 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, through 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Spiritualism in literature. American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Spiritualism -- United States -- History -- 19th century Literature and spiritualism -- United States -- History -- 19th century Occultism in literature. American literature Literature and spiritualism Occultism in literature Spiritualism Spiritualism in literature United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230604865 0230604862 1349538043 9781349538041

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