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The patience of Pearl : spiritualism and authorship in the writings of Pearl Curran.

By Patience , Curran , Pearl Lenore Pollard; Shea , Shea Daniel Bartholomew.; Worth

Book information

Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780826219893, 0826219896, 9780826272973, 0826272975
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1739313 bytes)
Pages
283\296
Time added
2015-06-27 22:03:10
Spiritualism Spirit writings Curran Pearl Lenore P

Description

Overview: Shea approaches Curran/Worth as a summary figure for the Victorian-era woman writer's buried voice at the point of its transition into modernism. He investigates many lingering questions about Curran's fluent productivity at the Ouija board, including the smart versus dumb unconscious. Shea links unconscious memory, dissociation, and automatic writing and reconsiders problematic assumptions about individual identity and claims of personal agency. The Curran/Worth Puritan/writer figure also allows scrutiny of gendered assumptions about the dangers of female speech and the idealization of women's passive reception of divine, or husbandly, revelation.

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