Skip to content
Libra Esoterica

The new Prometheans

faith, science, and the supernatural mind in the Victorian fin de siècle

by Courtney Raia

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English

Description

No source description yet.

None of the 1 source behind this record supplied a summary of The new Prometheans (2019). What the catalog does say:

Traditions: Parapsychology and psychical research

Subjects: History, Parapsychology, Supernatural, Great Britain, 19th century, Sir, 1843-1901, 1844-1912

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Parapsychology and psychical research.

  • Controlled discovery queries from national-library-of-scotland matched “parapsychology”. Retained metadata contains “Parapsychology” in the subject metadata.

    • parapsychology· via National Library of Scotland
    • Parapsychology· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

Read & download

Where a scan or ebook exists, it is listed here.

No public full text is known for this record.

None of our sources reported a scan or ebook. It may exist elsewhere — these searches are a good next step.

Buy or borrow

Links to ISBN 022663521X; other editions may be cheaper. WorldCat shows libraries near you that hold a copy.

Editions

One edition cataloged here.

faith, science, and the supernatural mind in the Victorian fin de siècle

National Bibliography of Scotland record

1 online resource; Introduction Chapter One. The Culture of Proof and the Crisis of Faith Chapter Two. William Crookes in Wonderland: Scientific Spiritualism and the Physics of the Impossible Chapter Three. Romancing the Crone: Frederic Myers, Spiritualism, and the 'Enchanted Portal to the World' Chapter Four. 'The Incandescent Solid beneath Our Line of Sight': Frederic Myers, the Self, and the Psychiatric Subconscious Chapter Five. Knowledge in Motion: Oliver Lodge, the Imperceptible Ether, and the Physics of (Extra-)Sensory Perception Chapter Six. Uncanny Cavemen: Andrew Lang, Psycho-Folklore, and the Romance of Ancient Man Chapter Seven. Psychical Modernism: Science, Subjectivity, and the Unsalvageable Self Notes Bibliography Index

2019The University of Chicago PressEnglish
  • 9780226635217
  • 9780226635354
  • 9780226635491
Catalog record

Subjects

14 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

How this record was assembled, and the authority identifiers it carries.

Cataloged from

Catalog id
national-library-of-scotland:99116533032204341
Edition coverage
National library of scotland source record
Retrieved