TY  - GEN
T1  - Altered states : sex, nation, drugs, and self-transformation in Victorian spiritualism
T2  - SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
A1  - Tromp, Marlene, 1966-
LA  - English
PP  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
YR  - 2006
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocm77176968
AB  - Altered States examines the rise of Spiritualism--the religion of séances, mediums, and ghostly encounters--in the Victorian period and the role it played in undermining both traditional female roles and the rhetoric of imperialism. Focusing on a particular kind of séance event--the full-form materialization--and the bodies of the young, female mediums who performed it, Marlene Tromp argues that in the altered state of the séance new ways of understanding identity and relationships became possible. This not only demonstrably shaped the thinking of the Spiritualists, but also the popular consciousness of the period. In diaries, letters, newspaper accounts, scientific reports, and popular fiction, Tromp uncovers evidence that the radical views presented in the faith permeated and influenced mainstream Victorian thought.
OP  - 233
CN  - BF1261.2 .T76 2006eb
SN  - 142941734X
SN  - 9781429417341
SN  - 9780791481936
SN  - 079148193X
SN  - 0791467392
SN  - 9780791467398
SN  - 0791467406
SN  - 9780791467404
KW  - Spiritualism : England.
KW  - England : Religion : History : 19th century.
KW  - England : Religion : 19th century.
KW  - Spiritisme : Angleterre.
KW  - Angleterre : Religion : 19e siècle.
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT : Spiritualism.
KW  - Religion
KW  - Spiritualism
KW  - England
KW  - Spiritismus
KW  - Identität
KW  - Sexualität
KW  - Großbritannien
KW  - Frau
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - History
ER  -