Queerness in nineteenth-century transatlantic spiritualism

这项研究将考察英国和美国的维多利亚时代的唯心主义者如何发展出一种独特的文化，这种文化扩展和复杂化了对19世纪酷儿历史的现有描述。第一章考虑了唯心主义神学及其与技术的关系如何推动了关于性别的新的思维方式，这些方式既类似于性学，也不同于性学。第二章聚焦于像S这样的灵性空间是如何允许表达不寻常的欲望和同性性欲的。第三章评估了亡者归来如何动摇了普通婚姻的霸权。第四章将讨论异性恋者之间的关系是如何在灵性团体中蓬勃发展的。它将使用自传、期刊、艺术和通信等一系列来源，研究唯心主义的神学含义和实践现实如何培育出一个奇怪的世界和世界观。这项研究对同性恋的定义包括行为、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.