Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism
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Considers the role of Spiritualism in Victorian culture.
Altered States examines the rise of Spiritualism-the religion of séances, mediums, and ghostly encounters-in the Victorian period and the role it played in undermining both traditional female roles and the rhetoric of imperialism. Focusing on a particular kind of séance event-the full-form materialization-and the bodies of the young, female mediums who performed it, Marlene Tromp argues that in the altered state of the séance new ways ...























