Victorian women and the theatre of trance : mediums, spiritualists and mesmerists in performance /

Victorian women and the theatre of trance : mediums, spiritualists and mesmerists in performance /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lehman, Amy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2009]
Subjects:
Women and spiritualism > United States > History > 19th century.
Women mediums > United States > History > 19th century.
Mesmerism > United States > History > 19th century.
Theater > United States > History > 19th century.
Women and spiritualism > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Women mediums > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Mesmerism > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Theater > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Victorian theatre and theatricality in Victorian culture
  • The Victorian woman as actress and the roles she played
  • Mesmer and Charcot : the trance performance as medical show
  • The performances of Elizabeth O'Key : the medical theatre of mesmerism
  • "Double consciousness" in acting theory and trance state
  • "Call me Gypsy" : Anna Cora Mowatt's trance performances
  • The rise of spiritualism and the Fox sisters
  • Séance as theatre
  • Spirit travels to distant times and places
  • Cora L.V. Richmond : spiritualist trance star
  • The performance of "Ouina" and the racial "other"
  • Spiritualism crosses over to England : Florence Cook and the materialization séance
  • "Katie King" and Robert Dale Owen
  • Materialization, ectoplasm and realism.