Trance Speakers ：Femininity and Authorship in Spiritual Séances, 1850-1930

Publication subTitle ：Femininity and Authorship in Spiritual Séances, 1850-1930

Author： Massicotte Claudie  

Publisher： McGill-Queen's University Press‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9780773549937

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780773549920

Subject： K711.8 national ambition

Keyword： 戏剧艺术

Language： ENG

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Description

A thought-provoking exploration of women’s voices and their agency in practices of trance possession.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON FEMALE MEDIUMSHIP

1 Historical Context Séances and Mediumship in Canada

2 Framework Interpreting Mediums’ Discourses as Unconscious Communications

PART TWO: FEMININITY AND AUTHORSHIP AMONG CANADIAN AND TRANSNATIONAL MEDIUMS

3 Healing Mediums and Medicine

4 Writing Mediums and Literary Creativity

5 Speaking Mediums in the Public Sphere

6 Performing Mediums, Science, and the Speaking Body

CONCLUSION: The Legacies of Spiritual Communications

AFTERWORD: The Afterlife of Canada’s Ghosts

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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