Victorian women and the theatre of trance
Subtitle: mediums, spiritualists and mesmerists in performance
By: Amy Lehman
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780786434794
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Victorian theatre and theatricality in Victorian culture; title: The Victorian woman as actress and the roles she played; title: Mesmer and Charcot : the trance performance as medical show; title: The performances of Elizabeth O'Key : the medical theatre of mesmerism; title: "Double consciousness" in acting theory and trance state; title: "Call me Gypsy" : Anna Cora Mowatt's trance performances; title: The rise of spiritualism and the Fox sisters; title: Séance as theatre; title: Spirit travels to distant times and places; title: Cora L.V. Richmond : spiritualist trance star; title: The performance of "Ouina" and the racial "other"; title: Spiritualism crosses over to England : Florence Cook and the materialization séance; title: "Katie King" and Robert Dale Owen; title: Materialization, ectoplasm and realism.