Spectres of the self : thinking about ghosts and ghost-seeing in England, 1750-1920 / Shane McCorristine
2010, 1st edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Item #412554
Physical description; (x, 275 pages). Notes; Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). Contents; The dreams of the ghost-seers -- The haunted mind, 1750-1850 -- Seeing is believing : hallucinations and ghost-seeing -- A science of the soul -- Ghost-hunting in the society for psychical research -- Phantasms of the living and the dead -- The concept of hallucination in late Victorian psychology -- Epilogue: towards 1920. Subjects; 18th-20th centuries. Ghosts England History. Parapsychology. Ghosts England History 18th century. Ghosts England History 19th century. Ghosts England History 20th century. Civilization, Modern Psychological aspects.
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