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Ghosts and things : the material culture of nineteenth-century spiritualism / Aviva Briefel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Briefel, Aviva, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spiritualism--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Spiritualism.
- Spiritualism--United States--History--19th century.
- Material culture--Social aspects.
- Material culture.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 256 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Ghosts and Things argues that Victorians turned to the dead to understand their own material culture. With the rise of spiritualism in Britain in the early 1850s, seances intended to contact ghosts also encouraged participants to process what it meant to live in a capitalist world dominated by things"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The strange matter of Victorian ghosts
- "Freaks of furniture": the erratic energy of haunted things
- The things they carried: object lessons of the apport seance
- Cabinets of wonder and exposure: the Davenport Brothers and Henry Box Brown
- Body building: the ghost in the age of mechanical reproduction
- Dressing the ghost: evidence and spectral clothing
- Epilogue: Ghosted!
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781501780288
- 150178028X
- 9781501780271
- 1501780271
- OCLC:
- 1463767012
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