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Literature, technology, and magical thinking, 1880-1920 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Literature, technology, and magical thinking, 1880-1920 // Pamela Thurschwell.
remainder title:	Literature, Technology & Magical Thinking, 1880-1920
Author:	Thurschwell, Pamela,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 194 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	English literature - History and criticism. - 19th century -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484537
ISBN:	9780511484537 (ebook)

Literature, technology, and magical thinking, 1880-1920 /
Thurschwell, Pamela,1966-

Literature, technology, and magical thinking, 1880-1920 /Literature, Technology & Magical Thinking, 1880-1920Pamela Thurschwell. - 1 online resource (x, 194 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;32. - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;80..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

In this 2001 book Pamela Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siècle. Thurschwell argues that 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 provocative interpretations of fin-de-siècle literary and scientific culture in relation to psychoanalysis, queer theory and cultural history.

ISBN: 9780511484537 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

560374
English literature
--History and criticism.--19th century

LC Class. No.: PR468.M34 / T48 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/37

Literature, technology, and magical thinking, 1880-1920 /
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