Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848-1930Ferguson, Christine.creatortextbibliographyElectronic books.History.stkEdinburghEdinburgh University Press2012monographiceng1 online resource (241 pages).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.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.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. StEdNLe-uk---n-us---SpiritualismGreat BritainHistory19th centurySpiritualismGreat BritainHistory20th centurySpiritualismUnited StatesHistory19th centurySpiritualismUnited StatesHistory20th centuryLiterature and spiritualismGreat BritainHistory19th centuryLiterature and spiritualismGreat BritainHistory20th centuryLiterature and spiritualismUnited StatesHistory19th centuryLiterature and spiritualismUnited StatesHistory20th centuryGreat BritainHistoryElizabeth II, 1952-Handbooks, manuals, etcLiteratureHistoryPhilosophyLITERARY CRITICISMGeneralTRAVELSpecial InterestLiteraryLITERARY CRITICISMEuropeanEnglish, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterature and spiritualismSpiritualismGreat BritainUnited States 1800-1999 fast DA592133.9094109034 800 942.08Ferguson, Christine.Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2012978074865066807486506609780748650682074865068722573/ctt342pwt JSTORhttp://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=459485http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=459485Owing to Legal Deposit regulations this resource may only be accessed from within National Library of Scotland. For more information contact enquiries@nls.uk. StEdNLEBLCP12061820200709055537.0ocn795695202eng