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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      05 July 2001
      ISBN:
      9780511484537
      9780521801683
      9780521022439
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484537
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 208 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.312kg, 208 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature 1830-1900, English Literature 1700-1830, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (32)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature 1830-1900, English Literature 1700-1830, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (32)
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    In this 2001 book Pamela Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siècle. 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-siècle literary and scientific culture in relation to psychoanalysis, queer theory and cultural history.

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    "Thurschwell has written an original, important exploration..." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920

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