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049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aFerguson, Christine.
245	1	0	_aDetermined Spirits : _bEugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848-1930.
260			_aEdinburgh : _bEdinburgh University Press, _c2012.
300			_a1 online resource (241 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aEdinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
505	0		_aCover; 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.
505	8		_aChapter 6 Dead Letters: Bioaesthetics and the New Realism in Fin-de-Siècle SpiritualismConclusion; Bibliography; Index.
520			_aExamines 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.
588	0		_aPrint version record.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
506			_aOwing to Legal Deposit regulations this resource may only be accessed from within National Library of Scotland. For more information contact enquiries@nls.uk. _5StEdNL
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776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aFerguson, Christine. _tDetermined Spirits : Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848-1930. _dEdinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2012 _z9780748639656
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