Keeping in Touch: An Anthology of the Victorian SeanceMain MenuIntroductionFurther ReadingI - Spiritualism and Its BelieversII - Ambivalent SkepticsIII - Scoffers and FraudsIV - The Private SeanceV - The Public SeanceWork CitedMegan Brueningb3bbdc9bd1941527cc9ff27849ef1a643abdd7d3
Confessions of a Medium: Public Displays
12016-11-23T12:41:18-05:00Megan Brueningb3bbdc9bd1941527cc9ff27849ef1a643abdd7d3714plain2016-12-16T21:08:32-05:00Megan Brueningb3bbdc9bd1941527cc9ff27849ef1a643abdd7d3 In these excerpts from Confessions of a Medium the narrator explains how he and his cohort of medium performed séances for the public on several occasions. These excerpts reveal several key points about the public séance: first, they explicitly reveal how spiritualism and the séance itself was commodified (the financial arrangements in private séances are much more subtle or do not appear at all in print); second, they explain how mediums could subvert any tests the public may choose to enact; third, they illustrate how public séances were a communal act in which people were brought together by the desire to test new epistemological methods.
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