Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880 1920
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521801680
ISBN-13
9780521801683
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 5th, 2001
Print length
208 Pages
Weight
434 grams
Dimensions
15.90 x 23.50 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900SpiritualismSpiritualism
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This is a 2001 study of the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siecle. Pamela Thurschwell looks at the ways in which psychical research, the scientific study of the occult, is reflected in the writings of such authors as Henry James, George du Maurier and Oscar Wilde, and in the foundations of psychoanalysis.
In this 2001 book Pamela Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siecle. Thurschwell argues that technologies began suffusing the public imagination from the mid-nineteenth century on: they seemed to support the claims of spiritualist mediums. Talking to the dead and talking on the phone both held out the promise of previously unimaginable contact between people: both seemed to involve 'magical thinking'. Thurschwell looks at the ways in which psychical research, the scientific study of the occult, is reflected in the writings of such authors as Henry James, George du Maurier and Oscar Wilde, and in the foundations of psychoanalysis. This study offers provocative interpretations of fin-de-siecle literary and scientific culture in relation to psychoanalysis, queer theory and cultural history.
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