Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture; 32;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 5 July 2001
- ISBN 9780521801683
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 229x152x16 mm
- Weight 480 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is a 2001 study of the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siecle.
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In this 2001 book Pamela Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-si&&&232;cle. Thurschwell argues that technologies began suffusing the public imagination from the mid-nineteenth century on: they seemed to support the claims of spiritualist mediums. Talking to the dead and talking on the phone both held out the promise of previously unimaginable contact between people: both seemed to involve 'magical thinking'. Thurschwell looks at the ways in which psychical research, the scientific study of the occult, is reflected in the writings of such authors as Henry James, George du Maurier and Oscar Wilde, and in the foundations of psychoanalysis. This study offers provocative interpretations of fin-de-si&&&232;cle literary and scientific culture in relation to psychoanalysis, queer theory and cultural history.
"Thurschwell has written an original, important exploration..." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920
Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. Severing the wire: the Society for Psychical Research's experiments in intimacy; 2. New forms of outrage: hypnotic aesthetes and the 1890s; 3. 'That Imperial stomach is no seat for ladies': James's wars, James's ghosts; 4. Henry James and Theodora Bosanquet: on the typewriter, in the cage, at the Ouija board; 5. Psychoanalysis's dangerous proximities: telepathy, psychosis and the real event; Bibliography.
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