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Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880 1920

Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880 1920

Thurschwell, Pamela
Beer, Gillian

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu, Book 32

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521801680
ISBN13: 9780521801683
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 5 2001
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siècle. She argues that as new technologies, such as the telegraph and the telephone, began suffusing the public imagination from the mid-nineteenth century on, they seemed to support the claims of spiritualist mediums. 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 DuMaurier and Oscar Wilde among others.

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