| Description |
351 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Summoning the Old Spirits -- Early Necromancy -- Darkness Across the Enlightenment and the Romantic Gothic -- The Victorians and Spiritualism; or, the Seance is Born -- Wars and Ouija: Spiritualism in the Twentieth Century -- How Universal is the Seance? -- The Modern Seance -- (Why) Do We Need the Seance?. |
| Summary |
Looks at the eerie history of our conversations with the dead, from necromancy in Homer's Odyssey to the emergence of Spiritualism, when Victorians were entranced by mediums and the seance was born |
| Subject(S) |
Seances -- History.
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| ISBN |
9781789142808 (hardcover) |
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1789142806 (hardcover) |
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