The sympathetic medium
Subtitle: feminine channeling, the occult, and communication technologies, 1859-1919
By: Jill Galvan.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780801448010
Subjects: Channeling (Spiritualism) -- History -- 19th century; Women mediums -- History -- 19th century; Communication -- Technological innovations -- History -- 19th century; Spiritualism in literature; Mediums in literature; Communication in literature; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Tuning in to the female medium; title: Sympathy and the spiriting of information In the cage; title: Securing the line : automatism and cross-cultural encounters in late Victorian Gothic fiction; title: Du Maurier's media : the phonographic unconscious on the cusp of the future; title: Telltale typing, hysterical channeling : the medium as detective device; title: Literary transmission and male mediation.