The Invention of Telepathy, 1870-1901Oxford University Press, 2002 - 324 páginas The Invention of Telepathy explores one of the enduring concepts to emerge from the late nineteenth century. Telepathy was coined by Frederic Myers in 1882. He defined it as 'the communication of any kind from one mind to another, independently of the recognised channels of sense'. By 1901 it had become a disputed phenomenon amongst physical scientists yet was the 'royal road' to the unconscious mind. Telepathy was discussed by eminent men and women of the day, including Sigmund Freud, Thomas Huxley, Henry and William James, Mary Kingsley, Andrew Lang, Vernon Lee, W.T. Stead, and Oscar Wilde. Did telepathy signal evolutionary advance or possible decline? Could it be a means of binding the Empire closer together, or was it used by natives to subvert imperial communications? Were women more sensitive than men, and if so why? Roger Luckhurst investigates these questions in a study that mixes history of science with cultural history and literary analysis. |
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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