Victorian women and the theatre of trance

mediums, spiritualists and mesmerists in performance

Victorian women and the theatre of trance
Amy Lehman, Amy Lehman
Victorian women and the theatre of trance by Amy Lehman, Amy Lehman
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mediums, spiritualists and mesmerists in performance

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Victorian women and the theatre of trance: mediums, spiritualists and mesmerists in performance
2009, McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers
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Table of 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 Owne
Materialization, ectoplasm, and realism.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Jefferson, N.C

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
793.8
Library of Congress
BF1275.W65 L45 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL23614340M
ISBN 13
9780786434794
LCCN
2009026561
OCLC/WorldCat
424454763
LibraryThing
9618646
Goodreads
6633509

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OL13837151W

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