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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 3 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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