Otherworldly Figures: Rhetoric, Representation, and the Public Performance of Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Spirit Mediums' Autobiographies
abstract: This dissertation theorizes nineteenth-century public performance of spiritual media as being inherent to the production of autobiography itself. Too often, dominant social discourses are cast as being singular cultural phenomena, but analyzing the rhetorical strategies of women attempting...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14614 |