Wald, PriscillaSpinner, Cheryl2017-05-162019-04-262017https://hdl.handle.net/10161/14548<p>Technologies of Illusion: Enchanting Modernity’s Machines confronts how the</p><p>disenchantment of modernity has occluded nineteenth-century Spiritualist archives. By</p><p>incorporating literary, visual, and archival methodologies, the dissertation recovers the</p><p>non-normative supernatural histories that are preserved within photographs, novels,</p><p>and supernatural testimonies. By eschewing scholarly method that is rooted in parsing</p><p>out fact from fiction, Technologies of Illusions gives dignity to the Spiritualist artifacts that</p><p>eschew such demarcations, and, by extension, the communities who believed in them.</p>American literatureArt historyReligionalternative historyenchantmentMagicModernityphotogrpahySpiritualismDissertation