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19th Century: Spiritualism and Skepticism

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Horace Bushnell among the Metaphysicians
Author: Albanese, Catherine L.
Publication: Church History 79, no. 3 (09, 2010): 614-53
Physic and Metaphysic in Nineteenth-Century America: Medical Sectarians and Religious Healing
Author: Albanese, Catherine L.
Publication: Church History 55, no. 4 (1986): 489-502
Ghostly Hands and Ghostly Agency: The Changing Figure of the Nineteenth-Century Specter
Author: Bann, Jennifer
Publication: Victorian Studies 51, no. 4 (Summer 2009): 663-685
Phantasmagorical Wonders: The Magic Lantern Ghost Show in Nineteenth-Century America
Author: Barber, X. Theodore
Publication: Film History 3, no. 2 (June 1989): 73-86
Civic Spirits? Ghost Lore and Civic Narratives in Nineteenth-Century Portsmouth
Author: Bell, Karl
Publication: Cultural & Social History 11, no. 1 (March 2014): 51-68
Hugh Bourne and the Magic Methodists
Author: Brittain, John N.
Publication: Methodist History 46, no. 3 (April 2008): 132-140
Other Worlds: Oliphant’s Spectralisation of the Modern
Author: Fielding, Penny
Publication: Women's Writing 6, no. 2 (July 1999): 201-213
Reading Victorian Illusions: Dickens's Haunted Man and Dr. Pepper's "Ghost"
Author: Groth, Helen
Publication: Victorian Studies 50, no. 1 (Fall 2007): 43-65
Arthur Hallam’s Spirit Photograph and Tennyson’s Elegiac Trace
Author: Hoffman, Jesse
Publication: Victorian Literature & Culture 42, no. 4 (December 2014): 611-636
The Bell Witch of Tennessee and Mississippi: A Folk Legend
Author: Hudson, Arthur Palmer and Pete Kyle McCarter
Publication: The Journal of American Folklore 47, no. 183 (Jan. – Mar. 1934): 45-63
The ‘Angel Delusion’ of 1806-1811: Frustration and Fantasy in Northern New England
Author: Juster, Susan and Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor
Publication: Journal of the Early Republic 22, no. 3 (Fall, 2002): 375-404
Spiritualism and a Mid-Victorian Crisis of Evidence
Author: Lamont, Peter
Publication: The Historical Journal 47, no. 4 (December 2004): 897-920
Spiritual (R)evolution and the Turning of Tables
Author: Lowry, Elizabeth
Publication: Journal For The Study Of Radicalism 9, no. 2 (Fall2015 2015): 1-16
Spectral Sexualities: Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism, Moral Panics, and the Making of U.S. Obscenity Law
Author: McGarry, Molly
Publication: Journal of Women’s History 12, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 8-29
Designed Horror: James’s Vision of Evil in The Turn of the Screw
Author: Maill, David S.
Publication: Nineteenth-Century Fiction 39, no. 3 (September 1984): 305-327
An Aristocratic Spectre
Author: Middleton, Jacob
Publication: History Today 61, no. 2 (February 2011): 44-45
'Light no Smithfield fires': Some Victorian Attitudes to Witchcraft
Author: Moran, Maureen F.
Publication: Journal Of Popular Culture 33, no. 4 (Spring 2000): 123-151
Spiritualism exposed: Scepticism, credulity and spectatorship in end-of-the-century America
Author: Natale, Simone
Publication: European Journal of American Culture 29, no. 2 (July 2010): 131-144
Possession Or Insanity? Two Views from the Victorian Lunatic Asylum
Author: Ossa-Richardson, Anthony
Publication: Journal of the History of Ideas 74, no. 4 (10, 2013): 553-75
From Demon Possession to Magic Show: Ventriloquism, Religion, and the Enlightenment
Author: Schmidt, Leigh Eric
Publication: Church History 67, no. 2 (June 1998): 274-304
The Trouble with Ghost-Seeing: Vision, Ideology, and Genre in the Victorian Ghost Story
Author: Smajic, Srdjan
Publication: ELH 70, no. 4 (Winter 2003): 1107-1135
Fairies and Railways: A Nineteenth-Century Topos and its Origins
Author: Young, Simon
Publication: Notes & Queries 59, no. 3 (September 2012): 401-403

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