Invisible Hosts: Performing the Nineteenth-Century Spirit Medium's Autobiography
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Modern American Spiritualism -- Models of Womanhood -- Four Mediums' Autobiographies -- Approach -- Chapter One Something in a Stranger's Experience: Evangelical and Spiritualist Women's Autobiography -- American Spiritual Autobiography:...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany
State University of New York Press
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
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Women and spiritualism--United States--History--19th century
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Lowry, Elizabeth Schleber: Invisible Hosts : Performing the Nineteenth-Century Spirit Medium's Autobiography. - Albany : State University of New York Press,c2017. - 9781438465999 |
| Summary: | Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Modern American Spiritualism -- Models of Womanhood -- Four Mediums' Autobiographies -- Approach -- Chapter One Something in a Stranger's Experience: Evangelical and Spiritualist Women's Autobiography -- American Spiritual Autobiography: Race and Gender -- Women's Autobiography in the Nineteenth Century -- Women Speaking in Public -- The Afterlife -- Structure, Style, and Spiritualism -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two Intoxicating Notoriety: Why Mediums Couldn't Quite Be "True" Women -- Fraudulence and Purity -- Institutional Authority and Piety -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three The Great Master Medium: Spiritualism, Casuistry, and Christian Discourse -- Context: Christianity Meets Spiritualism -- Resistance and Casuistry -- Demoralization -- Remoralizing -- New, True, and Practical -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four Home Sweet Home: Constructions of Domesticity, Embodiment, and the Public Sphere -- Context: Reconceptualizing Public and Private -- Poisoned Bouquets and Imperiled Virtue -- Model Homes: The Performance of Domesticity -- Haunted Houses -- The Hall Lampstand -- Death Foretold -- The Mother Country -- Mothering -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five Pure Intentions and Filthy Lucre: Relationality and the Rhetorical Implications of Endorsement and Patronage -- Context: Rubes and Dupes -- Statements and Testimonials -- The "Death-Blow" of 1888 -- Beyond the Death-Blow -- Endorsements and Cultural Capital -- Britten and "Respectable People" -- Payment and Purity -- Character Witnesses -- Conclusion -- Chapter Six Deep Trance: Corporeality, Dualism, and Submission -- Context: "At Bottom One" -- Mental and Physical Mediumship -- Representing and Resisting Dualism: Maynard and Jones -- "A Quiet Dreamy Feeling" -- Jones and the Doctors -- The Horrors of Feminine Corporeality -- Bondage -- Agency and Consciousness Conclusion -- Chapter Seven Indecorous Indecorum: Prophetic Women, Travel Writing, and the Politics of Virtue -- Context: Genre and Travel Writing -- From Panorama to Deep Focus: Britten and Jones as Travel Writers -- Britten -- Jones -- An American Legacy of Violence -- Incendiary Doctrines -- "We Shall Conquer" -- Exigency and Activism -- Social Justice -- Conclusion -- Conclusion Autobiographical Ends -- Breaching Boundaries and Performing Femininity -- Difference and Defiance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1438466013 |