Queerness in nineteenth-century transatlantic spiritualism

十九世纪跨大西洋唯灵论中的酷儿

• 批准号: 2708224
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Birkbeck, University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2708224
• 关键词: Queerness; nineteenth; century; transatlantic; spiritualism

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.

这项研究将探讨英国和美国维多利亚时代的唯灵论者如何发展出一种独特的文化，从而扩展和复杂化现有的十九世纪酷儿历史记录。第一章探讨唯灵论神学的优先事项及其与技术的关系如何推动思考性别的新方式，这些方式与性学既相似又不同。第二章重点讨论像降神会这样的唯灵论空间如何允许表达不寻常的欲望和同性色情。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如何在唯灵论者群体中蓬勃发展。它将研究唯灵论的神学含义和实践现实如何利用自传、期刊、艺术和信件等一系列来源来培育酷儿世界和世界观。这项研究对酷儿的定义包括行为、身份和社会地位。