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Hardcover Ghosts and Things: The Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism Book

ISBN: 1501780263

ISBN13: 9781501780264

Ghosts and Things: The Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism

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Ghosts and Things argues that Victorians turned to the dead to understand the material culture of their present. With the rise of spiritualism in Britain in the early 1850s, s ances invited participants to contact ghosts using material things, from ordinary household furniture to specialized technologies invented to register the presence of spirits. In its supernatural object lessons, Victorian spiritualism was not just a mystical...

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