The Art of Ectoplasm: Encounters with Winnipeg's Ghost Photographs
by Serena Keshavjee
University of Manitoba Press, 2023
Cloth: 978-1-77284-038-4 | Paper: 978-1-77284-037-7 | eISBN: 978-1-77284-039-1 (epub) | eISBN: 978-1-77284-040-7 (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification BF1381.A78 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 133.92
TOC
Cover
Contents
Note on the Photographs
Introduction. Science and Sentiment in the Hamilton Family Fonds
Part One: Historical Context
Chapter 1. Ghostly Pandemics: Speaking to the Dead in the Hamilton Family
Chapter 2. “Experiments and Experiences in Psychical Research”: Scientific Séances in Winnipeg
Chapter 3. Seeing and Feeling, Science and Religion: Negotiating Binaries in Lilian Hamilton’s Photographic Albums
Part Two: Archival Exploration
Chapter 4. Defending the T.G. Hamilton Family Psychical Research Legacy
Chapter 5. Life after Death: New Uses of the Hamilton Family Fonds
Part Three: Artistic Response
Chapter 6. “Weird Winnipeg”: Or How the Hamilton Family Fonds Helped to Make Winnipeg an Unlikely Centre of the Paranormal
Chapter 7. “Mere Symbolic Ectoplasm”: The Ectoplasmic Screen
Chapter 8. Journey to the Spirit Realm
Chapter 9. Embodying the Dead
Acknowledgements
Appendix. Hamilton Family Publications Psychical Research Experiments and Family History
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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