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The Invention of Telepathy

By Roger Luckhurst

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2002
ISBN
0199249628, 9780199249626
LCC
BF1171 .L77 2002
Open Library ID
OL3657789M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
65 MB (67635906 bytes)
Pages
337\337
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

The belief in telepathy is still widely held and yet it remains much disputed by scientists. Roger Luckhurst explores the origins of the term in the late nineteenth century. Telepathy mixed physical and mental sciences, new technologies and old superstitions, and it fascinated many famous people in the late Victorian era: Sigmund Freud, Thomas Huxley, Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde. This is an exciting and accessible study, written for general readers as much as scholars and students.

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