9780252002182 - Mediums, Spirit Rappers and Roaring Radicals: Spiritualism in American Literature, 1850-1900 von Kerr, Howard H. (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Second Printing. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 261 pages; 1973 University of Illinois Press. HC/DJ 2nd printing. Soundly bound and generally neat in bright clean dust jacket. About 20 or so pages with light pencil underlining and bracketing; superficial foxing top edge. VG-/VG+.

Second printing. 8vo. x, 261, [1] pp. Index. Cloth, dust jacket; jacket extremities worn. Very good. ISBN: 0252002180 David J. Pivar, Calif. State Univ. Fullerton, reviewing this work, and noting the ridicule spiritualism receives, remarks that Kerr wrote a well-researched social commentary of this period (1850-1900), and in the end supports the work as a "seminal contribution to the subject. . . " [American Historical Review, volume 79, issue 3, June 1974]. CONTENTS: The Epoch of the Rapping Spirits, Knocks for the Knockings, Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing, Follies and Delusions of the Nineteenth Century, Phenomenal Proof of a Life to Come, No Traveler Returns, Spirits Couldn't a Done Better, The Young Prophetess.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Second Printing. A Fine Second Printing with slightly bumped lower corners housed in a dust-jacket that is also Fine with minimal soiling ; This book looks at the various ways that spirituality has been portrayed in American literature from the mid-19th century to the turn of the century. It discusses how mediums, spirit-rappers, and roaring radicals have been used as vehicles to explore the spiritual realm.; 8vo; 261 pages.