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Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Spiritualists and the Detectives written by Allan Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Srdjan Smajić
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139485881
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists written by Srdjan Smajić and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the narrative techniques that developed for two very popular forms of fiction in the nineteenth century - ghost stories and detective stories - and the surprising similarities between them in the context of contemporary theories of vision and sight. Srdjan Smajić argues that to understand how writers represented ghost-seers and detectives, the views of contemporary scientists, philosophers, and spiritualists with which these writers engage have to be taken into account: these views raise questions such as whether seeing really is believing, how much of what we 'see' is actually only inferred, and whether there may be other (intuitive or spiritual) ways of seeing that enable us to perceive objects and beings inaccessible to the bodily senses. This book will make a real contribution to the understanding of Victorian science in culture, and of the ways in which literature draws on all kinds of knowledge.
Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (418 download)
Download or read book The Spiritualists and the Detectives written by Allan Pinkerton and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Spiritualists and the Detectives" is a work of non-fiction written by Allan Pinkerton, the American detective and founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. It was first published in 1875. In this book, Allan Pinkerton discusses the phenomenon of spiritualism, a popular movement during the 19th century in which individuals sought to communicate with the spirits of the deceased. Pinkerton examines various spiritualist practices and claims, including séances and mediums. He also delves into the role of detectives and investigators in addressing cases related to spiritualism, including cases of alleged fraud and deception. Allan Pinkerton's background as a detective and his interest in various social and cultural phenomena of his time influenced his exploration of spiritualism in this book. He applies his investigative skills to analyze the claims and practices of spiritualists, providing a skeptical and critical perspective on the subject.
Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Rail-road Forger and the Detectives written by Allan Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Spiritualists and the Detectives written by Allan Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Buchols and the Detectives written by Allan Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jill Galvan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801457386
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Sympathetic Medium written by Jill Galvan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century saw not only the emergence of the telegraph, the telephone, and the typewriter but also a fascination with séances and occult practices like automatic writing as a means for contacting the dead. Like the new technologies, modern spiritualism promised to link people separated by space or circumstance; and like them as well, it depended on the presence of a human medium to convey these conversations. Whether electrical or otherworldly, these communications were remarkably often conducted—in offices, at telegraph stations and telephone switchboards, and in séance parlors—by women. In The Sympathetic Medium, Jill Galvan offers a richly nuanced and culturally grounded analysis of the rise of the female medium in Great Britain and the United States during the Victorian era and through the turn of the century. Examining a wide variety of fictional explorations of feminine channeling (in both the technological and supernatural realms) by such authors as Henry James, George Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Marie Corelli, and George Du Maurier, Galvan argues that women were often chosen for that role, or assumed it themselves, because they made at-a-distance dialogues seem more intimate, less mediated. Two allegedly feminine traits, sympathy and a susceptibility to automatism, enabled women to disappear into their roles as message-carriers.Anchoring her literary analysis in discussions of social, economic, and scientific culture, Galvan finds that nineteenth- and early twentieth-century feminization of mediated communication reveals the challenges that the new networked culture presented to prevailing ideas of gender, dialogue, privacy, and the relationship between body and self.
Author : David Jaher
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307451062
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Witch of Lime Street written by David Jaher and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1924 the wife of a Boston surgeon came to embody the raging national debate over Spiritualism, a movement devoted to communication with the dead. Reporters dubbed her the blonde Witch of Lime Street, but she was known to her followers simply as Margery. Her most vocal advocate was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed so thoroughly in Margery's powers that he urged her to enter a controversial contest, sponsored by Scientific American. Her supernatural gifts beguiled four of the judges. There was only one left to convince ... the acclaimed escape artist, Harry Houdini. Jaher captures their electric public rivalry and the competition that brought them into each other's orbit.
Author : Massimo Polidoro
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615925872
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Secrets of the Psychics written by Massimo Polidoro and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing examination of the bizarre and the strange by a topnotch investigator will interest both skeptics and believers alike. Illustrations.
Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Gypsies and the Detectives written by Allan Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Pinkerton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Claude Melnotte and the Detectives written by Allan Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John B Kachuba
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1601639759
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Ghosthunters written by John B Kachuba and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2007-07-13 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Ghosthunters, John Kachuba explores some of America's great haunts while he introduces us to the people who actually go searching for ghosts. His writing takes the reader on a haunted journey—it's like riding shotgun with him while he creeps through haunted asylums, abandoned farmhouses, and historic battlefields, and speaks with some of the biggest names in this field of study. If something goes bump in the night, have no fear—John Kachuba won't be far behind." —Jeff Belanger, founder of Ghostvillage.com and author of The World's Most Haunted Places Why do ghosts fascinate so many people? To answer that question, writer and paranormal researcher John Kachuba aka “The Ghosthunter” investigates haunted locations throughout the country and interviews scores of people who have had paranormal encounters. The author discovers a growing interest in ghosts today, which has spurred an American pop culture phenomenon based on the supernatural. Combining his case reports of actual hauntings, discussions with leading figures in the paranormal world, and stories about related subjects–buying ghosts on eBay, buying and selling haunted houses, ghost tourism–Ghosthunters presents an intriguing and witty look at America’s paranormal world. Set off down the trail of the paranormal and read about: A ghost hunt in a Connecticut coffee shop with lay religious demonologist David Considine. Spending the night with the ghost of Miss Lily at St. Augustine, Florida’s historic St. Francis Inn. Spiritualist minister Rev. Rose Vanden Eynden’s abilities to talk with the dead. The search for the headless inmate on a ghost hunt at West Virginia’s Moundsville State Penitentiary.
Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Bank-robbers and the Detectives written by Allan Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Pinkerton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Burglar's Fate and the Detectives ... written by Allan Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Pinkerton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bucholz and the Detectives written by Allan Pinkerton and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Randi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781852831448
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (314 download)
Download or read book James Randi written by James Randi and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Randi, magician and psychic investigator, sets out to expose the world of the paranormal, exploring the myths of the occult and uncovering a few psychic tricksters in the process. The book is published to tie in with an ITV series in which Randi invites psychics to demonstrate their feats.
Author : Brian McCuskey
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271090448
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book How Sherlock Pulled the Trick written by Brian McCuskey and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful combination of literary study and author biography, How Sherlock Pulled the Trick guides us through the parallel careers of two inseparable men: Sherlock Holmes and his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Reconsidering Holmes in light of Doyle’s well-known belief in Victorian spiritualism, Brian McCuskey argues that the so-called scientific detective follows the same circular logic, along the same trail of questionable evidence, that led Doyle to the séance room. Holmes’s first case, A Study in Scarlet, was published in 1887, when natural scientists and religious apologists were hotly debating their differences in the London press. In this environment, Doyle became convinced that spiritualism, as a universal faith based on material evidence, resolved the conflict between science and religion. The character of Holmes, with his infallible logic, was Doyle’s good faith solution to the cultural conflicts of his day. Yet this solution has evolved into a new problem. Sherlock Holmes now authorizes the pseudoscience that corrupts our public sphere, defying logic, revising history, and promoting conspiracy theories. As this book demonstrates, wearing a deerstalker does not make you a mastermind—more likely, it marks you as a crackpot. Fascinating and highly readable, How Sherlock Pulled the Trick returns the iconic Holmes to his mystical origins.
