Determined Spirits - Ferguson, Christine
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Series Editor: Julian Wolfreys Drawing on provocative research, volumes in the series provide timely revisions of the nineteenth-century's literature and culture. DETERMINED SPIRITS Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848-1930 Christine Ferguson 'The reach of eugenics extended beyond the grave. Illuminating the dark rooms of spiritualist séances, this important study contests the fashionable representation of transatlantic Spiritualism as "subversive" and "progressive", and reveals the surprising links between speaking to the dead and silencing…mehr

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Series Editor: Julian Wolfreys Drawing on provocative research, volumes in the series provide timely revisions of the nineteenth-century's literature and culture. DETERMINED SPIRITS Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848-1930 Christine Ferguson 'The reach of eugenics extended beyond the grave. Illuminating the dark rooms of spiritualist séances, this important study contests the fashionable representation of transatlantic Spiritualism as "subversive" and "progressive", and reveals the surprising links between speaking to the dead and silencing the living.' Elana Gomel, Department of English and American Studies, Tel-Aviv University 'This bold work demolishes many of our preconceptions about spiritualism by actually reading the wonderful, bizarre publications of the spiritualists themselves. Ferguson's revelations will require everyone who is interested in gender, nationality, or eugenics in this context to rethink their assumptions.' Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University Examines the Spiritualist movement's role in disseminating eugenic and hard hereditarian thought Studying transatlantic spiritualist literature from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, Christine Ferguson focuses on the incorporation and dissemination of bio-determinist and eugenic thought. The book draws on rare material, including articles and serialised fiction from Spiritualist periodicals such as Light, The Two Worlds and The Medium and Daybreak as well as on Spiritualist healing, parentage and sex manuals. Christine Ferguson is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. Her previous publications include the monograph Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle: The Brutal Tongue (2006). Jacket design concept by Cathy Sprent [insert logo file] www.euppublishing.com ISBN 978-0-7486-3965-6 [please add in the white area above the barcode] Barcode
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Dr Christine Ferguson is currently a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of Language, Science, and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle: The Brutal Tongue (Ashgate, 2006).