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Victorian women and the theatre of trance : mediums, spiritualists and mesmerists in performance
- Title
- Victorian women and the theatre of trance : mediums, spiritualists and mesmerists in performance / Amy Lehman.
- Author
- Lehman, Amy.
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2009.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 202 p.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Mesmerism > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Theater > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Mesmerism > United States > History > 19th century
- Theater > United States > History > 19th century
- Women mediums > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Women and spiritualism > United States > History > 19th century
- Women and spiritualism > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Women mediums > United States > History > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Victorian theatre and theatricality in Victorian culture -- The Victorian woman as actress and the roles she played -- Mesmer and Charcot : the trance performance as medical show -- The performances of Elizabeth O'Key : the medical theatre of mesmerism -- "Double consciousness" in acting theory and trance state -- "Call me Gypsy" : Anna Cora Mowatt's trance performances -- The rise of spiritualism and the Fox sisters -- Séance as theatre -- Spirit travels to distant times and places -- Cora L.V. Richmond : spiritualist trance star -- The performance of "Ouina" and the racial "other" -- Spiritualism crosses over to England : Florence Cook and the materialization séance -- "Katie King" and Robert Dale Owen -- Materialization, ectoplasm and realism.
- Call Number
- MWET 09-8866
- ISBN
- 9780786434794 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 0786434791 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009026561
- OCLC
- YBP 2009026561
- Author
- Lehman, Amy.
- Title
- Victorian women and the theatre of trance : mediums, spiritualists and mesmerists in performance / Amy Lehman.
- Imprint
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- MWET 09-8866