This book asks about the cultural and political meanings of spiritualism in the Nineteenth century United States. In order to re-assess both transatlantic spiritualism and the culture in which it emerged, Bennet locates spiritualism within a highly technologized transatlantic capitalist culture.

The Apparitional Past Crossing Over: The Spiritualist Atlantic Revolutionary Spirits: The Persistence of the Occult Sacred Theatres: The Spiritist Performances of Shakerism in the 1830s and 1840s Spirited Away: The Death of Little Eva and the Farewell Performances of Katie King "There is no Death": Spiritualism and the Civil War Spiritualism's Afterlife

BRIDGET BENNET is Professor of American Literature and Culture in the School of English, University of Leeds, UK.