Author: Samuel Hibbert- WarePublisher:
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Category : Apparitions
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Past Feelings Renovated, Or, Ideas Occasioned by the Perusal of Dr. Hibbert's Philosophy of Apparitions
Author: Samuel Hibbert- WarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apparitions
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Spiritualism, Mesmerism and the Occult, 1800–1920 Vol 1
Author: Shane McCorristinePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000561445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1950
Book Description
This edition provides an insight into the dark areas between Victorian science, medicine and religion. The rare reset source material in this collection is organized thematically and spans the period from initial mesmeric experiments at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the decline of the Society for Psychical Research in the 1920s.
Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural
Author: Gavin BudgePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137284315
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This fascinating interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between literary interest in visionary kinds of experience and medical ideas about hallucination and the nerves in the first half of the nineteenth century, focusing on canonical Romantic authors, the work of women writers influenced by Romanticism, and visual culture.
The Spiritual Magazine
Author: Haunted America FAQ
Author: Dave ThompsonPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1495046001
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
(FAQ Pop Culture). Take a fast-paced survey of the ghosties, ghouls, and associated denizens of the country's haunted history with Haunted America FAQ . Tracing local ghost stories back to Native American legends and then forward through horror tales both ancient and modern, the book revisits some of the best known haunted locales, as well as some of the most obscure creepy places, in America. Delving deep into the cultural history of American hauntings, Haunted America FAQ includes chapters on ghostly books, movies, and television. Also included is an A-Z of reality-TV ghost hunts and a state-by-state gazetteer of haunted spots.
Spectres of the Self
Author: Shane McCorristinePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139788825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Spectres of the Self is a fascinating study of the rich cultures surrounding the experience of seeing ghosts in England from the Reformation to the twentieth century. Shane McCorristine examines a vast range of primary and secondary sources, showing how ghosts, apparitions, and hallucinations were imagined, experienced, and debated from the pages of fiction to the case reports of the Society for Psychical Research. By analysing a broad range of themes from telepathy and ghost-hunting to the notion of dreaming while awake and the question of why ghosts wore clothes, Dr McCorristine reveals the sheer variety of ideas of ghost seeing in English society and culture. He shows how the issue of ghosts remained dynamic despite the advance of science and secularism and argues that the ghost ultimately represented a spectre of the self, a symbol of the psychological hauntedness of modern experience.
Microscopic Illustrations of a Few New Popular and Diverting Living Objects, with Their Natural History
Author: C. R. GoringCatalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi
Author: Bodleian LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Liberating Medicine, 1720–1835
Author: Tristanne ConnollyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317316118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
During the 18th century medicine became an autonomous discipline and practice. Surgeons justified themselves as skilled practitioners and set themselves apart from the unspecialized, hack barber-surgeons of early modernity. This title presents 17 essays on the relationship between medicine and literature during the Enlightenment.
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