Technologies of Illusion: Enchanting Modernity's Machines
| dc.contributor.advisor | Wald, Priscilla | |
| dc.contributor.author | Spinner, Cheryl | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-16T17:28:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-04-26T08:17:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.department | English | |
| dc.description.abstract | Technologies of Illusion: Enchanting Modernity’s Machines confronts how the disenchantment of modernity has occluded nineteenth-century Spiritualist archives. By incorporating literary, visual, and archival methodologies, the dissertation recovers the non-normative supernatural histories that are preserved within photographs, novels, and supernatural testimonies. By eschewing scholarly method that is rooted in parsing out fact from fiction, Technologies of Illusions gives dignity to the Spiritualist artifacts that eschew such demarcations, and, by extension, the communities who believed in them. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | ||
| dc.subject | American literature | |
| dc.subject | Art history | |
| dc.subject | Religion | |
| dc.subject | alternative history | |
| dc.subject | enchantment | |
| dc.subject | Magic | |
| dc.subject | Modernity | |
| dc.subject | photogrpahy | |
| dc.subject | Spiritualism | |
| dc.title | Technologies of Illusion: Enchanting Modernity's Machines | |
| dc.type | Dissertation | |
| duke.embargo.months | 23 |
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