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Beer, Gillian.

Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920.
Author:	Thurschwell, Pamela.
other author:	Beer, Gillian.
Published:	Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2001.
Description:	209 p.
Series:	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
Subject:	English literature.; Literature and technology - Great Britain - Histor.
Online resource:	Click here to view book
ISBN:	9780511484537 (electronic bk.)

Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920.
Thurschwell, Pamela.

Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920.[electronic resource]. - Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2001. - 209 p. - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The Society for Psychical Research's experiments in intimacy; IMAGINING INTIMACY AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY; THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH; TELEPATHY; CHAPTER 2 Wilde, hypnotic aesthetes and the 1890s; CHAPTER 3 Henry James's lives during wartime; CHAPTER 4 On the typewriter, In the Cage, at the Ouija board; CHAPTER 5 Freud, Ferenczi and psychoanalysis's telepathic transferences; FREUD AND TELEPATHY: BETWEEN THE PHYSICAL, THE PSYCHICAL, AND THE PSYCHOTIC

Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siecle. Making unexpected connections between, for instance, speaking on the telephone and speaking to the dead, she examines how psychical research is reflected in the work of Henry James, George du Maurier and Oscar Wilde among others.

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ISBN: 9780511484537 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

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English literature.; Literature and technology - Great Britain - Histor.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR468.M34 T48 2001eb

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9008

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