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This edition provides an insight into the dark areas between
Victorian science, medicine and religion. The rare reset source
material in this collection is organized thematically and spans the
period from initial mesmeric experiments at the beginning of the
nineteenth century to the decline of the Society for Psychical
Research in the 1920s.
This edition provides an insight into the dark areas between
Victorian science, medicine and religion. The rare reset source
material in this collection is organized thematically and spans the
period from initial mesmeric experiments at the beginning of the
nineteenth century to the decline of the Society for Psychical
Research in the 1920s.
This edition provides an insight into the dark areas between
Victorian science, medicine and religion. The rare reset source
material in this collection is organized thematically and spans the
period from initial mesmeric experiments at the beginning of the
nineteenth century to the decline of the Society for Psychical
Research in the 1920s.
This edition provides an insight into the dark areas between
Victorian science, medicine and religion. The rare reset source
material in this collection is organized thematically and spans the
period from initial mesmeric experiments at the beginning of the
nineteenth century to the decline of the Society for Psychical
Research in the 1920s.
This edition provides an insight into the dark areas between
Victorian science, medicine and religion. The rare reset source
material in this collection is organized thematically and spans the
period from initial mesmeric experiments at the beginning of the
nineteenth century to the decline of the Society for Psychical
Research in the 1920s.
This edition provides an insight into the dark areas between
Victorian science, medicine and religion. The rare reset source
material in this collection is organized thematically and spans the
period from initial mesmeric experiments at the beginning of the
nineteenth century to the decline of the Society for Psychical
Research in the 1920s.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume
provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of
death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal
execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours
of Adolf Hitler's survival, and the legal concept of brain death.
In doing so, it explores a number of questions, including: how do
we know if someone is dead or not? What do people experience at the
moment when they die? Is death simply a biological event that comes
about in temporal stages of decomposition, or is it a social event
defined through cultures, practices, and commemorations? In other
words, when exactly is death? Taken together, these contributions
explore how death emerges in a series of stages that are uncertain,
paradoxical, and socially contested.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume
provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of
death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal
execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours
of Adolf Hitler's survival, and the legal concept of brain death.
In doing so, it explores a number of questions, including: how do
we know if someone is dead or not? What do people experience at the
moment when they die? Is death simply a biological event that comes
about in temporal stages of decomposition, or is it a social event
defined through cultures, practices, and commemorations? In other
words, when exactly is death? Taken together, these contributions
explore how death emerges in a series of stages that are uncertain,
paradoxical, and socially contested.
Spectres of the Self is a fascinating study of the rich cultures
surrounding the experience of seeing ghosts in England from the
Reformation to the twentieth century. Shane McCorristine examines a
vast range of primary and secondary sources, showing how ghosts,
apparitions, and hallucinations were imagined, experienced, and
debated from the pages of fiction to the case reports of the
Society for Psychical Research. By analysing a broad range of
themes from telepathy and ghost-hunting to the notion of dreaming
while awake and the question of why ghosts wore clothes, Dr
McCorristine reveals the sheer variety of ideas of ghost seeing in
English society and culture. He shows how the issue of ghosts
remained dynamic despite the advance of science and secularism and
argues that the ghost ultimately represented a spectre of the self,
a symbol of the psychological hauntedness of modern experience.
Spectres of the Self is a fascinating study of the rich cultures
surrounding the experience of seeing ghosts in England from the
Reformation to the twentieth century. Shane McCorristine examines a
vast range of primary and secondary sources, showing how ghosts,
apparitions, and hallucinations were imagined, experienced, and
debated from the pages of fiction to the case reports of the
Society for Psychical Research. By analysing a broad range of
themes from telepathy and ghost-hunting to the notion of dreaming
while awake and the question of why ghosts wore clothes, Dr
McCorristine reveals the sheer variety of ideas of ghost seeing in
English society and culture. He shows how the issue of ghosts
remained dynamic despite the advance of science and secularism and
argues that the ghost ultimately represented a spectre of the self,
a symbol of the psychological hauntedness of modern experience.
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Imagining the Supernatural North (Paperback)
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Danielle Marie Cudmore, Stefan Donecker; Contributions by Angela Byrne, Silvije Habulinec, …
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"Turning to face north, face the north, we enter our own
unconscious. Always, in retrospect, the journey north has the
quality of dream." Margaret Atwood, "True North" In this
interdisciplinary collection, sixteen scholars from twelve
countries explore the notion of the North as a realm of the
supernatural. This region has long been associated with sorcerous
inhabitants, mythical tribes, metaphysical forces of good and evil,
and a range of supernatural qualities. It was both the sacred abode
of the gods and a feared source of menacing invaders and
otherworldly beings. Whether from the perspective of traditional
Jewish lore or of contemporary black metal music, few motifs in
European cultural history show such longevity and broad appeal.
Contributors: Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough, Angela Byrne, Danielle
Marie Cudmore, Stefan Donecker, Brenda S. Gardenour Walter, Silvije
Habulinec, Erica Hill, Jay Johnston, Maria Kasyanova, Jan
Leichsenring, Shane McCorristine, Jennifer E. Michaels, Ya'acov
Sarig, Rudolf Simek, Athanasios Votsis, Brian Walter
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