The darkened room :
women, power, and spiritualism in late Victorian England /
Alex Owen.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2004.
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-307) and index. Physical description: 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 0226642054 9780226642055 |
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction : the book, the spirits, and the historian
1. Power and gender : the spiritualist context
2. Victorian spiritualism and the spiritualist woman
3. Star mediumship : light and shadows
4. At home with the Theobald family
5. Women healers in the spiritualist world
6. Medicine, mediumship and mania
7. Louisa Lowe's story
8. Spiritualism and the subversion of femininity
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction : the book, the spirits, and the historian
1. Power and gender : the spiritualist context
2. Victorian spiritualism and the spiritualist woman
3. Star mediumship : light and shadows
4. At home with the Theobald family
5. Women healers in the spiritualist world
6. Medicine, mediumship and mania
7. Louisa Lowe's story
8. Spiritualism and the subversion of femininity
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index.