The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Ruth Brandon

Knopf, 1983 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 315 pages

Traces the development of spiritualism and examines the claims of mediums to be able to contact the spirits of the dead.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
• Author: Ruth Brandon
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Knopf, 1983
• ISBN: 0394527402, 9780394527406
• Length: 315 pages
• Subjects: Body, Mind & Spirit / Occultism; Body, Mind & Spirit / Parapsychology / ESP (Clairvoyance, Precognition, Telepathy); Body, Mind & Spirit / Spiritualism