Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vi
4. Series Editor’s Preface vii
5. Acknowledgements ix
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1 Radical Determinism and the Natural History of the Medium 21
8. Chapter 2 Spirits in Mind: Madness, Idiocy and the Cultural Capital of Ignorance 58
9. Chapter 3 Eugenic Summerlands: Sexual Reproduction and Family Engineering in the Spheres 86
10. Chapter 4 Blended Souls: Paschal Beverly Randolph and Occult Miscegenation 114
11. Chapter 5 Criminal Man and Recidivist Spirit: Spiritualism, Criminal Anthropology and Thanato-Rehabilitationism 142
12. Chapter 6 Dead Letters: Bioaesthetics and the New Realism in Fin-de-Siècle Spiritualism 172
13. Conclusion 199
14. Bibliography 204
15. Index 220