Queerness in nineteenth-century transatlantic spiritualism

本研究将探讨英国和美国维多利亚时代的唯心主义者如何发展出一种独特的文化，这种文化扩展并使19世纪酷儿历史的现有叙述复杂化。第一章考虑了唯心论神学的优先级及其与技术的关系如何推动了对性别的新思考方式，这些方式与性学既有相似之处，也有不同之处。第2章关注的是像萨姆斯这样的唯心主义空间是如何允许表达不寻常的欲望和同性色情的。第三章评估了死者的回归如何动摇了普通婚姻的霸权。第四章将讨论酷儿关系是如何在通灵者群体中蓬勃发展的。它将研究唯心论的神学含义和实际现实如何通过自传、期刊、艺术和通信等一系列来源培养了一个奇怪的世界和世界观。本研究对酷儿的定义包括行为、身份和社会地位。

This study will examine how Victorian spiritualists in Britain and the United States developed a distinctive culture that expands and complicates existing accounts of nineteenth-century queer history. Chapter 1 considers how the priorities of spiritualist theology and its relationship to technology drove new ways of thinking about gender that both resembled and differed from sexology. Chapter 2 focuses on how spiritualist spaces like the séance allowed for expression of unusual desires and same-sex eroticism. Chapter 3 assesses how the return of the dead destabilised the hegemony of ordinary marriage. Chapter4 will discuss how queer relationships flourished amongst spiritualist communities. It will examine how the theological implications and practical realities of spiritualism fostered a queer world and worldview using a range of sources such as autobiographies, periodicals, art and correspondence. This study's definition of queerness incorporates acts, identity and social position.