Ferguson, Christine C. (Author)
Studying transatlantic spiritualist literature from the mid-19th to the early 20th century, Christine Ferguson focuses on its incorporation and dissemination of bio-determinist and eugenic thought. She asks why ideas about rational reproduction, hereditary determinism and race improvement became so important to spiritualist novelists, journalists and biographers in this period. She also examines how these concerns drove emerging Spiritualist understandings of disability, intelligence, crime, conception, the afterlife and aesthetic production. The book draws on rare material, including articles and serialized fiction from Spiritualist periodicals such as Light, The Two Worlds and The Medium and Daybreak as well as on Spiritualist healing, parentage and sex manuals.
...MoreReview Lester, Ahren (2013) Review of "Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848--1930". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 351-352).
Review Tromp, Marlene (2015) Review of "Determined Spirits: Eugenics, Heredity and Racial Regeneration in Anglo-American Spiritualist Writing, 1848--1930". Victorian Studies (pp. 331-333).
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Lorenzo Leporiere;
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Becoming Eusapia: The rise of the “Diva of Scientists”
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(1999)
Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity and the New Thought Movement, 1875--1920
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Nadkarni, Asha;
(2006)
Reproductive Nationalism: Eugenic Feminist Literature in the United States andIndia
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Baker, Graham;
(2014)
Eugenics and Migration: A Case Study of Salvation Army Literature about Canada and Britain, c.1890--1921
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Jones, Jeannette Eileen;
Sharp, Patrick B.;
(2010)
Darwin in Atlantic Cultures: Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
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Rensing, Susan Marie;
(2006)
Feminist Eugenics in America: From Free Love to Birth Control, 1880--1930
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(2006)
Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness
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Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
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Regal, Brian;
(2002)
Henry Fairfield Osborn: Race and the Search for the Origins of Man
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Jessica Blatt;
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How Political Science Became Modern: Racial Thought and the Transformation of the Discipline, 1880–1930
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Denise Eileen McCoskey;
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Basil Gildersleeve and John Scott: Race and the Rise of American Classical Philology
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Grimes, Hilary;
(2011)
The Late Victorian Gothic: Mental Science, the Uncanny, and Scenes of Writing
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“A Most Terrible Spectacle”: Visualizing Racial Science in American Literature and Culture, 1839--1929
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Roche, Claire M.;
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Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complicity
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(2007)
Radio Mind: Protestant Experimentalists on the Frontiers of Healing
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The Sympathetic Medium: Feminine Channeling, the Occult, and Communication Technologies, 1859--1919
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The Human Animal: Tangles in Science and Literature, 1870--1920
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Kaplan, Louis;
(2008)
The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer
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Monroe, John Warne;
(2008)
Laboratories of Faith: Mesmerism, Spiritism, and Occultism in Modern France
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