Ghosts of futures past spiritualism and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century America / [electronic resource] :
Molly McGarry.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.
- xiii, 269 p. : ill.
"Simpson, imprint in humanities"--P. facing t.p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mourning, media, and the cultural politics of conjuring the dead -- Indian guides : haunted subjects and the politics of vanishing -- Spectral sexualities : free love, moral panic, and the making of U.S. obscenity law -- Mediomania : the spirit of science in a culture of belief and doubt -- Secular subjects : a queer genealogy of untimely sexualities.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Spiritualism--History--United States--19th century. Religion and culture--History--United States--19th century.