Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

✍ Scribed by Bridget Bennett (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 252
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Introduction....Pages 1-25
Crossing Over: The Spiritualist Atlantic....Pages 27-53
Revolutionary Spirits: The Persistence of the Occult....Pages 55-82
Sacred Theatres: The Spiritist Performances of Shakerism in the 1830s and 1840s....Pages 83-113
Spirited Away: The Death of Little Eva and the Farewell Performances of Katie King....Pages 115-146
“There Is No Death“: Spiritualism and the Civil War....Pages 147-175
Conclusion....Pages 177-183
Back Matter....Pages 185-247

✦ Subjects

History of the Americas; Literature, general; North American Literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Religious Studies, general; Modern History

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