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Exploring Other Worlds
David Chapin
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Description for Exploring Other Worlds
Paperback. Illuminating the emerging culture of celebrity in early 19th century America, this text tells the intertwined stories of the Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane and the spiritualist medium Margaret Fox and examines their unlikely relationship. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 449.
Illuminates the emerging culture of celebrity in early nineteenth-century America; Exploring Other Worlds tells the intertwined stories of the Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane and the spiritualist medium Margaret Fox and examines their unlikely relationship. Kane, from a prominent Philadelphia family, became one of the most renowned and honored explorers of the antebellum era. Fox grew up in rural upstate New York and, as one of the Fox Sisters, became a famed and somewhat notorious ""spirit rapper"" whose strange ""knocks"" were said to be communications from the dead. The two were rumored to have had a love affair, and they ... Read more
Illuminates the emerging culture of celebrity in early nineteenth-century America; Exploring Other Worlds tells the intertwined stories of the Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane and the spiritualist medium Margaret Fox and examines their unlikely relationship. Kane, from a prominent Philadelphia family, became one of the most renowned and honored explorers of the antebellum era. Fox grew up in rural upstate New York and, as one of the Fox Sisters, became a famed and somewhat notorious ""spirit rapper"" whose strange ""knocks"" were said to be communications from the dead. The two were rumored to have had a love affair, and they ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558494572
SKU
V9781558494572
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Reviews for Exploring Other Worlds
A superb piece of historical writing. Authoritative, resonant, and deftly written, it is a model for what good cultural history should be. - Jim Cullen, author of The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea That Shaped a Nation; ""An intriguing piece of narrative history. Chapin's analysis of the power dynamics between the Kane and Fox families provides a ... Read more