Invisible hosts : performing the nineteenth-century spirit medium's autobiography /
Finalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Religion categoryInvisible Hosts explores how the central tenets of Spiritualism influenced ways in which women conceived of their bodies and their civic responsibilities, arguing that Spiritualist ideologies helped to lay the found...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en liña: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18252721 |
Table of 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 DiscourseContext: 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 PatronageContext: 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 CorporealityBondage; 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.