Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, And Self Transformation In Victorian Spiritualism by Marlene Tromp

Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, And Self Transformation In Victorian Spiritualism

Marlene Tromp

260 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Altered States examines the rise of Spiritualism--the religion of seances, mediums, and ghostly encounters--in the Victorian period and the role it played in undermining both traditional female roles and the rhetoric of imperialism. Focusing on a ...

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