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Author Tromp, Marlene, 1966-

Title Altered states : sex, nation, drugs, and self-transformation in Victorian spiritualism / Marlene Tromp.

Imprint Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  133.90942 T752a 2006    ---  Available
Description xii, 233 p., [14] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Series SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
Bibliography 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'Esperance, social justice, and the evolution of mediumship.
Subject Spiritualism -- England.
England -- Religion -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 0791467392 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780791467398 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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