Introduction; 1. Severing the wire: the Society for Psychical Research's experiments in intimacy; 2. New forms of outrage: hypnotic aesthetes and the 1890s; 3. 'That Imperial stomach is no seat for ladies': James's wars, James's ghosts; 4. Henry James and Theodora Bosanquet: on the typewriter, in the cage, at the Ouija board; 5. Psychoanalysis's dangerous proximities: telepathy, psychosis and the real event; Bibliography.
This is a 2001 study of the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siecle.
Pamela Thurschwell is a lecturer in twentieth century literature at University College London.
"Thurschwell has written an original, important exploration..." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920
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