Plato's Ghost: Spiritualism in the American Renaissance

by Cathy Gutierrez

In its day, spiritualism brought hundreds of thousands of Americans to s ance tables and trance lectures. It has alternately been ridiculed as the apogee of fatuous credulity and hailed as a feminist movement. Its tricks have been exposed, its charlatans unmasked, and its heroes' names lost to posterity. In its day, however, its leaders were household names and politicians worried about capturing the Spiritualist vote. Cathy Gutierrez places Spiritualism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195388356
• ISBN13: 9780195388350
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"