1st Edition
Independent Spirits Spiritualism and English Plebeians, 1850-1910
By Logie Barrow
Copyright 1986
354 Pages
by
Routledge
354 Pages
by
Routledge
354 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1986. Independent Spirits is about the intellectual world of the humbly-born in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, focussing on plebeian, or working- and lower middle-class spiritualists. This book is an important study which throws light on the idealism and search for knowledge that were so central in plebeian circles and in certain, very important parts... Read more
Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. Germination 2. Owenism and the millennium 3. Nottingham and cabala 4. The problematic of imponderables 5. Plebians and others 6. Presence and problems of democratic epistemology 7. Healing 8. Bridging the great divide; Conclusion; Notes; Index
Biography
Logie Barrow
