The Spectacle of the Empire: Haunting Figures in Henry James's Later Works(本文)
Journal: Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB)
Year: 2014

Maggie and Kate Fox, two young sisters in New York State, reportedly began hearing noises and communicating with spirits.As is well-known, the Fox Sisters' report on the spirit began the craze of spiritualism, which subsequently swept the Western countries.What I attempt to suggest here is not that Marx and Engels supported occultism nor that the Fox Sisters read the "Manifesto." 2 Instead, its pure coincidence suggests the simultaneity between communism and spiritualism in the late nineteenth c