TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferguson,Christine
TI  - Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848-1930
T2  - Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
SN  - 9780748650668
AV  - DA592 
U1  - 133.9094109034800942.08 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Spiritualism
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - United States
KW  - Literature and spiritualism
KW  - Elizabeth II, 1952-
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
KW  - Literature
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - TRAVEL
KW  - Special Interest
KW  - Literary
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Owing to Legal Deposit regulations this resource may only be accessed from within National Library of Scotland. For more information contact enquiries@nls.uk
N2  - 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
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