05060cam a2200877Mi 4500 ocn795695202 OCoLC 20200709055537.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 120618s2012 stk obf 001 0 eng d EBLCP eng pn EBLCP N$T OCLCQ OCLCO YDXCP OCLCQ JSTOR OCLCF OCLCQ E7B NLE OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO OCL OCLCQ 797816298 945765008 9780748650668 (electronic bk.) 0748650660 (electronic bk.) 9780748650682 0748650687 9780748639656 0748639659 9780748650675 459485 (N$T) (OCoLC)795695202 (OCoLC)797816298 (OCoLC)945765008 22573/ctt342pwt JSTOR e-uk--- n-us--- DA592 LIT 000000 bisacsh TRV 026090 bisacsh LIT004120 bisacsh REL062000 bisacsh 133.9094109034 800 942.08 MAIN Ferguson, Christine. Determined Spirits : Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848-1930. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012. 1 online resource (241 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture Cover; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Radical Determinism and the Natural History of the Medium; Chapter 2 Spirits in Mind: Madness, Idiocy and the Cultural Capital of Ignorance; Chapter 3 Eugenic Summerlands: Sexual Reproduction and Family Engineering in the Spheres; Chapter 4 Blended Souls: Paschal Beverly Randolph and Occult Miscegenation; Chapter 5 Criminal Man and Recidivist Spirit: Spiritualism, Criminal Anthropology and Thanato-Rehabilitationism. Chapter 6 Dead Letters: Bioaesthetics and the New Realism in Fin-de-Siècle SpiritualismConclusion; Bibliography; Index. Examines the Spiritualist movement's role in disseminating eugenic and hard hereditarian thought. Studying transatlantic spiritualist literature from the mid-19th to the early 20th century, Christine Ferguson focuses on its incorporation and dissemination of bio-determinist and eugenic thought. She asks why ideas about rational reproduction, hereditary determinism and race improvement became so important to spiritualist novelists, journalists and biographers in this period. She also examines how these concerns drove emerging Spiritualist understandings of disability, intelligence, crime, concep. Print version record. Includes bibliographical references and index. Owing to Legal Deposit regulations this resource may only be accessed from within National Library of Scotland. For more information contact enquiries@nls.uk. StEdNL Spiritualism Great Britain History 19th century. Spiritualism Great Britain History 20th century. Spiritualism United States History 19th century. Spiritualism United States History 20th century. 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. Great Britain History Elizabeth II, 1952- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Literature. History. Philosophy. LITERARY CRITICISM General. bisacsh TRAVEL Special Interest Literary. bisacsh LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Literature and spiritualism. fast (OCoLC)fst01000101 Spiritualism. fast (OCoLC)fst01130170 Great Britain. fast (OCoLC)fst01204623 United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155 1800-1999 fast Electronic books. History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Print version: Ferguson, Christine. Determined Spirits : Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848-1930. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2012 9780748639656 Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=459485 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL932470 ebrary EBRY ebr10569446 EBSCOhost EBSC 459485 YBP Library Services YANK 8518865 92 N$T 51312 51312