Spiritualism and Women's Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spiritualism and Women's Writing write by T. Kontou. This book was released on 2009-08-26. Spiritualism and Women's Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using a wide range of unexplored archival material, this book examines the 'spectral' influence of Victorian spiritualism and Psychical Research on women's writing, analyzing the ways in which modern writers have both subverted and mimicked nineteenth century sources in their evocation of the séance.
Material Spirituality in Modernist Women’s Writing
Material Spirituality in Modernist Women’s Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Material Spirituality in Modernist Women’s Writing write by Elizabeth Anderson. This book was released on 2020-03-19. Material Spirituality in Modernist Women’s Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For Virginia Woolf, H.D., Mary Butts and Gwendolyn Brooks, things mobilise creativity, traverse domestic, public and rural spaces and stage the interaction between the sublime and the mundane. Ordinary things are rendered extraordinary by their spiritual or emotional significance, and yet their very ordinariness remains part of their value. This book addresses the intersection of spirituality, things and places – both natural and built environments – in the work of these four women modernists. From the living pebbles in Mary Butts's memoir to the pencil sought in Woolf's urban pilgrimage in 'Street Haunting', the Christmas decorations crafted by children in H.D.'s autobiographical novel The Gift and Maud Martha's love of dandelions in Brooks's only novel, things indicate spiritual concerns in these writers' work. Elizabeth Anderson contributes to current debates around materiality, vitalism and post-secularism, attending to both mainstream and heterodox spiritual expressions and connections between the two in modernism. How we value our spaces and our world being one of the most pressing contemporary ethical and ecological concerns, this volume contributes to the debate by arguing that a change in our attitude towards the environment will not come from a theory of renunciation but through attachment to and regard for material things.
Spiritualism and Women's Writing
Spiritualism and Women's Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spiritualism and Women's Writing write by T. Kontou. This book was released on 2009-08-26. Spiritualism and Women's Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using a wide range of unexplored archival material, this book examines the 'spectral' influence of Victorian spiritualism and Psychical Research on women's writing, analyzing the ways in which modern writers have both subverted and mimicked nineteenth century sources in their evocation of the séance.
Radical Spirits
Radical Spirits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Radical Spirits write by Ann Braude. This book was released on 2020-05-25. Radical Spirits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Braude has discovered a crucial link between the early feminists and the spiritualists who so captured the American imagination.” —Los Angeles Times In Radical Spirits, Ann Braude contends that the early women’s rights movement and Spiritualism went hand in hand. Her book makes a convincing argument for the importance of religion in the study of American women’s history. In this new edition, Braude discusses the impact of the book on the scholarship of the last decade and assesses the place of religion in interpretations of women’s history in general and the women’s rights movement in particular. A review of current scholarship and suggestions for further reading make it even more useful for contemporary teachers and students. “It would be hard to imagine a book that more insightfully combined gender, social, and religious history together more perfectly than Radical Spirits. Braude still speaks powerfully to unique issues of women’s creativity—spiritual as well as political—in a superb account of the controversial nineteenth-century Spiritualist movement.” —Jon Butler, Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies at Yale University “Continually rewarding.” —The New York Times Book Review “A fascinating, well-researched, and scholarly work on a peripheral aspect of the rise of the American feminist movement.” —Library Journal “A vitally important book . . . [that] has . . . influenced a generation of young scholars.” —Marie Griffith, associate director of the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University “An insightful book and a delightful read.” —Journal of American History
A Woman's Path
A Woman's Path - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Woman's Path write by Lucy McCauley. This book was released on 2003. A Woman's Path available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Buddhist nun goes AWOL to roam the French countryside and discovers a wild spirituality. A hellish trip through the mountains of Peru turns mystical and offers a vision. More than just adventure, the writing in A Woman's Path shares the unforgettable moments when a journey opens a traveler's eyes and profoundly alters who she is. Around the globe and across all religions, these tales of discovery offer an uncommon look at personal transformation, whether by the trials of stolen luggage and harrowing rides or the joys of seeking out extraordinary people, places, and experiences. Inspiring and insightful, this illustrated collection invites all women to step outside their everyday lives and welcome an awakening. Contributors include Anne Lamott, Maya Angelou, Linda Ellerbee, Kim Chernin, and Natalie Goldberg, among others.
