A01=Antonio Melechi
Author_Antonio Melechi
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folklore
george eliot
ghosts
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ian mortimer
kathryn hughes
lucy worsley
occult
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queen victoria
robert aickman
shamanism
sigmund freud
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Product details
- ISBN 9780099478867
- Weight: 224g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2009
- Publisher: Cornerstone
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Born of the so-called Victorian 'pseudo science' of mesmerism, the séance enjoyed a late 19th century golden age that ministered to the Victorian obsession with science, religious doubt, and entertainment.
Mediums, psychics and somnambulists were investigated by amateur sleuths and by scientists like Faraday and Darwin; their performances imitated and exposed by magicians, denounced by clerics, satirised in the press. Yet the popularity of spiritualism and the séance endured - and does so to this day.
Antonio Melechi is a Visiting Fellow at the University of York and the author of Fugitive Minds.
