- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press (5 July 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0521801680
- ISBN-13: 978-0521801683
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,062,005 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920
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"Thurschwell has written an original, important exploration..." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920
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In this book Pamela Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siècle. Thurschwell argues that technologies began suffusing the public imagination from the mid-nineteenth century on: they seemed to support the claims of spiritualist mediums. Talking to the dead and talking on the phone both held out the promise of previously unimaginable contact between people: both seemed to involve 'magical thinking'. Thurschwell looks at the ways in which psychical research, the scientific study of the occult, is reflected in the writings of such authors as Henry James, George du Maurier and Oscar Wilde, and in the foundations of psychoanalysis. This study offers new and provocative interpretations of fin-de-siècle literary and scientific culture in relation to psychoanalysis, queer theory and cultural history.
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