Mediums and Spirit-Rappers and Roaring Radicals: Spiritualism in American Literature, 1850-1900.
Language: English
Published by University of Illinois Press, 1973., Urbana:, 1973
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Second printing. 8vo. x, 261, [1] pp. Index. Cloth, dust jacket; jacket extremities worn. Very good. ISBN: 0252002180 David J. Pivar, Calif. State Univ. Fullerton, reviewing this work, and noting the ridicule spiritualism receives, remarks that Kerr wrote a well-researched social commentary of this period (1850-1900), and in the end supports the work as a "seminal contribution to the subject. . . " [American Historical Review, volume 79, issue 3, June 1974]. CONTENTS: The Epoch of the Rapping Spirits, Knocks for the Knockings, Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing, Follies and Delusions of the Nineteenth Century, Phenomenal Proof of a Life to Come, No Traveler Returns, Spirits Couldn't a Done Better, The Young Prophetess.
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- Title
- Mediums and Spirit-Rappers and Roaring Radicals: Spiritualism in American Literature, 1850-1900.
- Author
- KERR, Howard.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press, 1973., Urbana:
- Publication year
- 1973
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0252002180
- ISBN 13
- 9780252002182
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