Altered states : sex, nation, drugs, and self-transformation in Victorian spiritualism /

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 mate...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tromp, Marlene, 1966-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006.
Series:SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18252697