Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920

Informationen zum Autor Pamela Thurschwell is a lecturer in twentieth century literature at University College London.This is a 2001 study of the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siecle. Pamela 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Severing the wire: the Society for Psychical Research's experiments in intimacy; 2. New forms of outrage: hypnotic aesthetes and the 1890s; 3. 'That Imperial stomach is no seat for ladies': James's wars, James's ghosts; 4. Henry James and Theodora Bosanquet: on the typewriter, in the cage, at the Ouija board; 5. Psychoanalysis's dangerous proximities: telepathy, psychosis and the real event; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Pamela Thurschwell, Pamela (University College London) Thurschwell
• Assisted by: Gillian Beer (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.07.2001
• EAN: 9780521801683
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80168-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies