The Invention of Telepathy, 1870-1901Oxford University Press, 2002 - 324 páginas 'Fine cultural history.' -David McAllister, Times Literary Supplement'Roger Luckhurst's The Invention of Telepathy comes at the disturbing story of modern psychic experiments through rich, overlapping layers of social and intellectual history and makes comprehensible what otherwise seem eccentricities and even folly on the part of scientists and thinkers.' -Marina Warner, 'Books of the Year', Times Literary Supplement'Luckhurst's densely worked argument picks up and knots the trailing threads in a carpet where figures of imperialist fantasy, technological terror and scientific speculation can be glimpsed side by side... lucid and richly layered study.' -Marina Warner, London Review of BooksThe belief in telepathy is still widely held and yet it remains much disputed by scientists. Roger Luckhurst explores the origins of the term in the late nineteenth century. Telepathy mixed physical and mental sciences, new technologies and old superstitions, and it fascinated many famous people in the late Victorian era: Sigmund Freud, Thomas Huxley, Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde. This is an exciting and accessible study, written for general readers as much as scholars and students. |
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Contenido
TERRAINS OF EMERGENCE 18701882 | 9 |
CONCEPT | 60 |
W T STEADS | 117 |
The Phantasmal Empire | 154 |
Psychofolklorist | 160 |
Mary Kingsley and the Capacity to Think in Black | 167 |
Rudyard Kiplings GossipTales | 173 |
PSYCHICAL RESEARCH AND | 181 |
NERVES | 214 |
Entanglements with Mediums | 227 |
William Henry and Alice James | 234 |
Henry Jamess Romances of Occult Relation | 241 |
AFTERLIVES 19011934 | 253 |
Bibliography | 279 |
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Alice Andrew Andrew Lang Arthur Machen belief Borderland British Cambridge University Press Charles cited colonial communication Crookes's cultural Darwin death Degeneration discourse Dreams Edmund Gurney electrical Empire Essays experiments F. W. H. Myers Fiction fin de siècle Francis Galton Frederic Myers Freud Galton George Ghost Stories Gothic Grant Allen Gurney haunted Henry James History human Huxley hypnosis Hypnotism Ibid imperial James's John Journal Kingsley Kipling knowledge laboratory late Victorian Letters London Longmans Machen Macmillan magic Mary Kingsley medium mental mesmeric mind Modern Myers's mystical nerves nervous Nineteenth Century occult Oliver Lodge Oxford Phantasms phenomena physical powers PSPR psychic force psychical research Psychoanalysis psychology Richard RofR scientific naturalism séance sensitive sexual Sidgwick social Society for Psychical Spiritualism Spiritualist Stevenson Studies suggested supernatural telegraph telepathy theory Thought-Reading tion trance trance-states trans Tyndall vols W. T. Stead William Barrett William Crookes William James Woman women York
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