Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920

by Pamela Thurschwell

Book Overview

In this 2001 book Pamela Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-si?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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521801680
• ISBN13: 9780521801683
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"