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The sympathetic medium : feminine channeling, the occult, and communication technologies, 1859-1919 / Jill Galvan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Galvan, Jill Nicole, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Channeling (Spiritualism)--History--19th century.
- Channeling (Spiritualism).
- Women mediums--History--19th century.
- Women mediums.
- Communication--Technological innovations--History--19th century.
- Communication.
- Spiritualism in literature.
- Mediums in literature.
- Communication in literature.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Galvan offers a richly nuanced and culturally grounded analysis of the rise of the female medium in Great Britain and the United States during the Victorian era and through the turn of the century through the work of George Eliot, Bram Stoker, and others.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8014-5862-5
- OCLC:
- 726824192
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