الأشباح والأشياء.. الثقافة المادية للروحانية في القرن التاسع عشر

_[Ghosts and Things](https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501780264/ghosts-and-things/#bookTabs=4)”_ The Victorians turned to the dead to understand the material culture of their time. With the rise of Spiritualism in Britain in the early 1850s, seances invited participants to communicate with ghosts using physical objects, from ordinary household furniture to Specialized techniques were created to record the presence of spirits. In its practical supernatural lessons, Victorian Spiritualism was not only a mystical movement centered around the dead, but also a practical resource for learning how to deal with the strangeness of life under capitalism. Aviva Prevail explores how spirituality led séance participants to speculate about the making of ghostly clothing; contemplating the history and hidden energies of salon furniture; facing the indignities of consumerism when conjured spirits pelted them with exotic fruits; He understood methods of mechanical reproduction, such as photography and electrical printing, that had the power to shape identities. Breville argues that spiritual practices and the objects they used offered believers and skeptics alike unexpected frameworks for engaging with the often hidden forces of labor, consumption, exploitation, and exchange that dominated their daily lives. _Ghosts and Objects_ reveals how spiritualist explorations of the boundaries between life and death, matter and spirit, produced a strange and compelling mixture of wonder and unease, allowing participants to experience the possibilities and dangers of industrial modernity in new ways.