Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter One. The Culture of Proof and the Crisis of Faith 15
7. Chapter Two. William Crookes in Wonderland: Scientific Spiritualism and the Physics of the Impossible 45
8. Chapter Three. Romancing the Crone: Frederic Myers, Spiritualism, and the “Enchanted Portal to the World” 97
9. Chapter Four. “The Incandescent Solid beneath Our Line of Sight”: Frederic Myers, the Self, and the Psychiatric Subconscious 141
10. Chapter Five. Knowledge in Motion: Oliver Lodge, the Imperceptible Ether, and the Physics of (Extra-) Sensory Perception 205
11. Chapter Six. Uncanny Cavemen: Andrew Lang, Psycho-Folklore, and the Romance of Ancient Man 265
12. Chapter Seven. Psychical Modernism: Science, Subjectivity, and the Unsalvageable Self 303
13. Notes 343
14. Bibliography 389
15. Index 411