Invention of Telepathy

Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Roger Luckhurst is Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, University of London, and co-editor of Roger of The Fin-de-Siècle (OUP, 2000). Klappentext The 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. Zusammenfassung Explores telepathy, an enduring concepts that emerged from the late nineteenth century. This book addresses several questioning regarding telepathy, and investigates these questions in a study that mixes the history of science with cultural history and literary analysis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Terrains of Emergence, 1870-1882 2: Coining Telepathy: Concept and Elaboration, 1882-1901 3: Making Connections: W. T. Stead's Occult Economies 4: Telepathic Doxai: Knowledge and Belief at the Imperial Margin 5: Psychical Research and the Late-Victorian Gothic 6: The Woman-Sensitive: Nerves, New Women and Henry James 7: Afterlives, 1901-34 Index

Product details

• Authors: Roger Luckhurst, Roger (Lecturer in English Luckhurst, Luckhurst Roger
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2002
• EAN: 9780199249626
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924962-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, popular science, SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PSYCHOLOGY / Experimental Psychology, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Psychic powers & psychic phenomena, Psychic powers and psychic phenomena, Parapsychological studies, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Psychic Phenomena / General