Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880–1920

Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880–1920
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9781139428859
ISBN-13 : 1139428853
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Book Synopsis Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880–1920 by : Pamela Thurschwell

Download or read book Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880–1920 written by Pamela Thurschwell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 2001 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 provocative interpretations of fin-de-siècle literary and scientific culture in relation to psychoanalysis, queer theory and cultural history.


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