The Sympathetic Medium (English, Jill Galvan)

About the Book

The nineteenth century saw not only the emergence of the telegraph, the telephone, and the typewriter but also a fascination with s�ances and occult practices like automatic writing as a means for contacting the dead. Like the new technologies, modern spiritualism promised to link people separated by space or circumstance; and like them as well, it depended on the presence of a human medium to convey these conversations. Whether electrical or oth…

ISBN: 9780801448010