Determined Spirits : : Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848-1930 / / Christine Ferguson.
Examines the Spiritualist movement's role in disseminating eugenic and hard hereditarian thoughtStudying transatlantic spiritualist literature from the mid-19th to the early 20th century, Christine Ferguson focuses on its incorporation and dissemination of bio-determinist and eugenic thought. S...
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Ferguson, Christine, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Determined Spirits : Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848-1930 / Christine Ferguson. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2012 1 online resource (240 p.) : 3 B/W illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Radical Determinism and the Natural History of the Medium -- Chapter 2 Spirits in Mind: Madness, Idiocy and the Cultural Capital of Ignorance -- Chapter 3 Eugenic Summerlands: Sexual Reproduction and Family Engineering in the Spheres -- Chapter 4 Blended Souls: Paschal Beverly Randolph and Occult Miscegenation -- Chapter 5 Criminal Man and Recidivist Spirit: Spiritualism, Criminal Anthropology and Thanato-Rehabilitationism -- Chapter 6 Dead Letters: Bioaesthetics and the New Realism in Fin-de-Siècle Spiritualism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Examines the Spiritualist movement's role in disseminating eugenic and hard hereditarian thoughtStudying transatlantic spiritualist literature from the mid-19th to the early 20th century, Christine Ferguson focuses on its incorporation and dissemination of bio-determinist and eugenic thought. She asks why ideas about rational reproduction, hereditary determinism and race improvement became so important to spiritualist novelists, journalists and biographers in this period. She also examines how these concerns drove emerging Spiritualist understandings of disability, intelligence, crime, conception, the afterlife and aesthetic production. The book draws on rare material, including articles and serialized 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.Key FeaturesThe first major study of Transatlantic Spiritualism's sustained commitment to eugenics, bio-determinism and hard hereditarianismDevotes a chapter to eugenic and raciological writing of Paschal Beverly Randolph, the 19th-century African-American Rosicrucian and sex magician whose work has only recently been rediscovered by scholarsInterdisciplinary and historicist methodologyThe rich transatlantic reading demonstrates the continuity and influence between British and American Spiritualist writings on the body, reproduction and mental fitness Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Literature and spiritualism Great Britain History 19th century. Literature and spiritualism Great Britain History 20th century. Literature and spiritualism United States History 19th century. Literature and spiritualism United States History 20th century. Spiritualism Great Britain History 19th century. Spiritualism Great Britain History 20th century. Spiritualism United States History 19th century. Spiritualism United States History 20th century. Literary Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 9783110780468 print 9780748639656 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748650668 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748650668 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748650668/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Radical Determinism and the Natural History of the Medium -- Chapter 2 Spirits in Mind: Madness, Idiocy and the Cultural Capital of Ignorance -- Chapter 3 Eugenic Summerlands: Sexual Reproduction and Family Engineering in the Spheres -- Chapter 4 Blended Souls: Paschal Beverly Randolph and Occult Miscegenation -- Chapter 5 Criminal Man and Recidivist Spirit: Spiritualism, Criminal Anthropology and Thanato-Rehabilitationism -- Chapter 6 Dead Letters: Bioaesthetics and the New Realism in Fin-de-Siècle Spiritualism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Radical Determinism and the Natural History of the Medium -- Chapter 2 Spirits in Mind: Madness, Idiocy and the Cultural Capital of Ignorance -- Chapter 3 Eugenic Summerlands: Sexual Reproduction and Family Engineering in the Spheres -- Chapter 4 Blended Souls: Paschal Beverly Randolph and Occult Miscegenation -- Chapter 5 Criminal Man and Recidivist Spirit: Spiritualism, Criminal Anthropology and Thanato-Rehabilitationism -- Chapter 6 Dead Letters: Bioaesthetics and the New Realism in Fin-de-Siècle Spiritualism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
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