Determined spirits : eugenics, heredity and racial regeneration in Anglo-American spiritualist writing, 1848-1930 /: eugenics, heredity and racial regeneration in Anglo-American spiritualist writing, 1848-1930. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christine Ferguson.
• Other Names: Ferguson, Christine
• Contents: Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; Radical Determinism and the Natural History of the Medium; Spirits in Mind: Madness, Idiocy, and the Cultural Capital of Ignorance; Eugenic Summer Lands: Sexual Reproduction and Family Engineering in the Spheres; Blended Souls: Paschal Beverly Randolph and Occult Miscegenation; Criminal Man and Recidivist Spirit: Spiritualism, Criminal Anthropology, and Thanato-Rehabilitationism; Dead Letters: Bio-Aesthetics and the New Realism in Fin-de-Siècle Spiritualism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: United Kingdom : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Subjects: 133.9094109034; Literature and spiritualism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Literature and spiritualism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Literature and spiritualism -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Literature and spiritualism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Spiritualism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Spiritualism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Spiritualism -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Spiritualism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780748650668
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.