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- catalog abstract ""In this book Pamela Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siecle. Thurschwell argues that technologies such as the telegraph and the telephone annihilated distances that separated bodies and minds from each other. As these new technologies began suffusing the public imagination from the mid-nineteenth century on, they seemed to support the claims of spiritualist mediums. Talking to the dead and talking on the phone both held out the promise of previously unimaginable contact between people: both seemed to involve 'magical thinking'. 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. This study offers new and provocative interpretations of fin-de-siecle literary and scientific culture in relation to psychoanalysis, queer theory and cultural history."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12274589.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""In this book Pamela Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siecle. Thurschwell argues that technologies such as the telegraph and the telephone annihilated distances that separated bodies and minds from each other. As these new technologies began suffusing the public imagination from the mid-nineteenth century on, they seemed to support the claims of spiritualist mediums. Talking to the dead and talking on the phone both held out the promise of previously unimaginable contact between people: both seemed to involve 'magical thinking'.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-190) and index.".
- catalog description "The Society for Psychical Research's experiments in intimacy -- Wilde, hypnotic aesthetes and the 1890s -- Henry James's lives during wartime -- On the typewriter, In the cage, at the Ouija board -- Freud, Ferenczi and psychoanalysis's telepathic transferences.".
- catalog description "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. This study offers new and provocative interpretations of fin-de-siecle literary and scientific culture in relation to psychoanalysis, queer theory and cultural history."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "x, 194 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0511041462 (electronic bk.)".
- catalog identifier "0521801680".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 32".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "820.9/37 21".
- catalog subject "English literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Homosexuality and literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature and technology Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Literature and technology Great Britain History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Magic in literature.".
- catalog subject "Occultism in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR468.M34 T48 2001".
- catalog subject "Psychoanalysis and literature.".
- catalog subject "Spiritualism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Telepathy in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Society for Psychical Research's experiments in intimacy -- Wilde, hypnotic aesthetes and the 1890s -- Henry James's lives during wartime -- On the typewriter, In the cage, at the Ouija board -- Freud, Ferenczi and psychoanalysis's telepathic transferences.".
- catalog title "Literature, technology and magical thinking, 1880-1920 / Pamela Thurschwell.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".