Article ID: CBB298956221

Physiology of the Haunted Mind: Naturalistic Theories of Apparitions in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland (2020)

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The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw a resurgence of interest in the supernatural in Scotland as elsewhere in the United Kingdom. A number of intellectual figures responded by proposing naturalistic explanations for supernatural phenomena, drawing on the legacy of Scottish Enlightenment philosophy. These included the geologist and antiquarian Samuel Hibbert and the phrenologist George Combe. This paper explores the interrelations between these theories, their roots in the troubled cultural politics of Scotland in the early nineteenth century, and the reaction of different protagonists in the cultural conflicts of the period to their ideas.

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Authors & Contributors
Chesnov, V. M.
Conlin, Jonathan
Daszkiewicz, Piotr
De Ceglia, Francesco Paolo
Fedorovich, I. B.
Fornasiero, Jean
Journals
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Archives of Natural History
Canadian Journal of History
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Technology and Culture
Publishers
Ashgate
Bloomsbury Publishing
Manchester University Press
MIT Press
Pickering & Chatto
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Science and culture
Science and politics
Travel; exploration
Supernatural
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Darwin, Charles Robert
Davy, Humphry
Franklin, John
Kant, Immanuel
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Rossiiskaia Akademiia Nauk
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