Format:
1 online resource (210 pages)
ISBN:
9780271077376
Content:
Intro -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Configurations of Séances -- 1. The Medium on the Stage: Theatricality and Performance in the Spirit Séance -- 2. Parlor Games: Play and Social Life in the Haunted House -- Part 2: How to Sell a Spirit -- 3. Breaking the News: Controversy, Sensation, and the Popular Press -- 4. Mediums and Stars: Religion, Consumerism, and Celebrity Culture -- Part 3: Spirit and Matter -- 5. Stranger than Fiction: Print Media, Automatic Writing, and Popular Culture -- 6. The Marvels of Superimposition: Spirit Photography and Spiritualism's Visual Culture -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780271071046
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780271071046
Language:
English
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