Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-190) and index
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
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Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-sicle. Making unexpected connections between, for instance, speaking on the telephone and speaking to the dead, she examines how psychical research is reflected in the work of Henry James, George du Maurier and Oscar Wilde among others
Literature, technology, and magical thinking, 1880-1920.
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English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
English literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
Homosexuality and literature.
Literature and technology-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
Literature and technology-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.