Psychic investigators : anthropology, modern spiritualism and credible witnessing in the late Victorian age / Efram Sera-Shriar.
Pubblicazione:
Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh press, c2022.
Descrizione fisica:
IX, 222 p. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Serie:
Science and culture in the nineteenth century
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgments. Introduction: When Victorian anthropology entered the séance room. 1. Alfred Russel Wallace: the believer 2. Edward Burnett Tylor: the skeptic 3. Andrew Lang: the revisionist 4. Edward Clodd: the disbeliever. Epilogue: Legacies of late Victorian spirit investigation. Notes. Bibliography. Index
