The sympathetic medium : feminine channeling, the occult, and communication technologies, 1859-1919 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Galvan, Jill Nicole, 1971-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Subjects:	Channeling (Spiritualism) > History > 19th century. Women mediums > History > 19th century. Communication > Technological innovations > History > 19th century. Spiritualism in literature. Mediums in literature. Communication in literature. American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Tuning in to the female medium
Sympathy and the spiriting of information In the cage
Securing the line : automatism and cross-cultural encounters in late Victorian Gothic fiction
Du Maurier's media : the phonographic unconscious on the cusp of the future
Telltale typing, hysterical channeling : the medium as detective device
Literary transmission and male mediation.